Herminia Rodríguez Fernández

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Herminia Rodríguez Fernández
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1936–1944
Succeeded byWilfredo Figuero Gonzalez
ConstituencyCamagüey Province
Personal details
Died15 January 1944

Herminia Rodríguez Fernández (died 15 January 1944) was a Cuban politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.

Biography[edit]

Rodríguez was a Nationalist Union candidate for the House of Representatives in Camagüey Province in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote, and was one of seven women elected.[1] She was re-elected as a Republican Democratic Party candidate in 1940, serving in the House until her death on 15 January 1944.[2][3]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
  2. ^ En Cuba sólo han sido Representates veinte mujeres, desde el 1936 Diario de la Marina, 14 December 1955
  3. ^ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127