Joaquín González (July 22, 1853 - September 21, 1900) was a Filipino politician and a member of the Malolos Congress that wrote the Malolos Constitution, the first Philippine constitution, after the country declared independence from Spain in 1898. He was one of two elected delegates representing the province of Pampanga, the other being José Rodríguez Infante. Along with Felipe Calderón y Roca, the main author of the constitution, Dr. González was on a committee that debated over each article of the charter from October 25 to November 29, 1898. Early life and training Dr. González was a Spanish mestizo born out of the union of Fray Fausto López Palomino OSA (from Valladolid, Spain) and María Amparo "Mariquita" González y de los Ángeles (from Baliuag, Bulacan). He was trained as a Doctor of Medicine in Spain at the Universidad de Valladolid and the Universidad Central de Madrid (now the Complutense University of Madrid). He later attended the Ophthalmology Institute of Dr Louis de Wecker in Paris, France, to specialize in eye diseases. His compatriot Dr José Rizal studied in the same institute years later and Dr de Wecker told him that another Filipino, Dr Joaquin Gonzalez, had preceded him there. Career Unexpectedly, the Spanish mestizo and member of the Ilustrado (the moneyed and educated class), Dr González actively supported the Katipunan during the Revolution from 1896–99; he was an offspring of a union not unlike that of the fictional Padre Dámaso and the married Doña Pía Alba de de los Santos in José Rizal's banned novel, Noli Me Tángere. He believed in the Revolution and was a friend of its more educated members, as well as several of its generals. Dr González was familiar with General Emilio Aguinaldo (the country’s first acknowledged President), Don Felipe Buencamino, Sr. (widower of Doña Juana Arnedo, who died in 1883 and was the niece of Doña Florencia Sioco, Dr Gonzalez's wife), and other leaders of the movement. Dr González possessed contraband copies of Rizal's Noli Me Tángere and its sequel, El Filibusterismo, as well as writings of Madrid-based propagandistas, whom he knew socially. His house in Barrio Sulipan, Apalit, Pampanga, was the venue for clandestine meetings of the organization. The Katipunan’s siege of Macabebe and other offensives in the province were planned in his house; he and his family viewed that attack from there using strong binoculars. His mother-in-law, Doña Matea Rodríguez, was the largest