Background
FALLA SANTOS, Salvador was born on December 25, 1845 in Nicaragua. Son of Doctor Antonio Falla and Matilde Santos.
lawyer and public man land-owner
FALLA SANTOS, Salvador was born on December 25, 1845 in Nicaragua. Son of Doctor Antonio Falla and Matilde Santos.
In 1871 collaborated with Don Manuel Ubico in the formation of a mortgage law which was substantially incorporated in the Civil Code of 1877. Member of the Municipal Council of Guatemala City, 1879, 1885. Magistrate of the Court of Justice, 1879-1884.
President of the Commission charged with the elaboration of the Fiscal Code of Guatemala, 1881.
Alternate member of the Directive Board of the Faculty of Law of Guatemala, 1881. Deputy to the Constituent Assembly, 1885.
To the Legislative Assembly, 1886. Minister of Government and Justice, 1887.
Delegate of the Government of Nicaragua to the First Pedagogical Congress of Guatemala, 1893.
Member of the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Mortgage Bank, 19051935. Member of the Congress of Journalists of Guatemala, 1911. Rector of the National University of Guatemala, 1918.
Guatemalan delegate to the conferences of San José de Costa Rica on the union of Central America, 1921.
Deputy from Guatemala to the Constituent Congress of Tegucigalpa which abrogated the Federal Constitution between Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras, 1922.
Asociación de Abogados (ex-president of the Directive Board). Rotary Club of Guatemala. Sociedad CientíficoLiteraria “El Porvenir” (ex-president and
Married Rosario Arís de Falla. Children: Salvador, Julia, Fernando, José, and Catalina.