Pedro Sa. Baculio was the mayor of Cagayan de Oro City

Cagayan de Oro City

Cagayan de Oro; , officially the City of Cagayan de Oro, is the provincial capital city of the province of Misamis Oriental in the Philippines...

 for a short time. He served from March 1953 to December 1953. He relinquished his post when his presidential candidate lost to incumbent President Elpidio Quirino

Elpidio Quirino

Elpidio Rivera Quirino was a Filipino politician, and the sixth President of the Philippines.A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919 to 1925. He was then elected as senator from 1925–1931...

. He also represented Misamis Oriental

Misamis Oriental

Misamis Oriental is a province of the Philippines located in the Northern Mindanao region. Its capital and provincial center is Cagayan de Oro City...

, which at that time included the Island of Camiguin and Cagayan de Oro, during the 1st Congress

1st Congress of the Philippines

The First Congress of the Philippines was the meeting of the legislature of the Republic of the Philippines, composed of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives from May 25, 1946 until December 13, 1949. The body was originally convened as the Second Congress of the Commonwealth of the...

, from 1946 to 1949. In 1948, he authored the bills to create the City of Cagayan de Oro, Municipalities of Jasaan, Manticao and El Salvador in Misamis Oriental. By 2007, his son authored the bill converting El Salvador into a city.