Lukban, a physician and delegate to the Malolos Congress, was a member of the Philippine Assembly from 1909 to 1912 and mayor of Manila from 1917 to 1920. Justo Lukban, son of Agustin Lukban and Andrea Rilles, and brother of revolutionary General Vicente Lukban, was born in Labo, Camarines Norte on May 28, 1863. After obtaining his A.B. degree at Letran, he studied medicine at Santo Tomas and graduated in 1888. He then opened a private clinic in Manila. During the Revolution, he joined his brother Vicente in southern Luzon, and later was elected delegate to the Malolos Congress, representing Ambos, Camarines. When the Universidad Literaria-Cientifica de Filipinas was established in October 1898, he was named to its faculty of medicine. In February 1899, he was designated tax collector of the newly established Board of Defense and Aid. At war''s end, he and other former revolutionists formed the Asociacion de Paz to seek a general amnesty from the American military administration. Dr. Lukban was named district health officer of Camarines during the American regime. In 1906 he was one of those who initiated the organization of the Nacionalista Party. He also became editor of La Independencia. Elected to the National Assembly, representing the first district of Manila, in 1909, he was reelected for another term. In 1917 he succeeded Felix M. Roxas as Mayor of Manila, making him the third appoined mayor of the city. As Manila''s chief executive, he is best remembered for his drive against the city''s red light district and for banishing its prostitutes in Garden district to Mindanao. He resigned, however, in 1920, but at the instance of Governor Leonard Wood, became President of the Board of Appeals. Dr. Lukban died of a heart attack on September 2, 1927. It was said that his daughter Natividad, who married Atty. Mariano Albert, that when he died he had only 20 centavos in his pocket-book.