Herminia Rodríguez Fernández
Herminia Rodríguez Fernández | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1936–1944 | |
| Succeeded by | Wilfredo Figuero Gonzalez |
| Constituency | Camagüey Province |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 15 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]- ^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
- ^ En Cuba sólo han sido Representates veinte mujeres, desde el 1936 Diario de la Marina, 14 December 1955
- ^ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127