Rosa Anders Causse
Rosa Anders Causse | |
|---|---|
| Member of the House of Representatives | |
| In office 1936–1938 | |
| Constituency | Camagüey Province |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Santiago de Cuba, Cuba |
Rosa Anders Causse was a Cuban lawyer and politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.
Biography
[edit]Anders was born in Santiago de Cuba.[1] She was one of the first women to earn a law degree at the University of Havana,[2] and after moving to Camagüey Province, also became the first woman to work as a public defender in Cuba.[1]
She was a Liberal Party candidate for the House of Representatives in Camagüey in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote. She was one of seven women elected,[3] winning by just one vote.[4] She served in the House until 1938.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Dora Luz García Santos (2009) Rosas de Acero: Catálogo de Mujeres Camagüeyanas Anales de Investigación, issue 5, pp87–89
- ^ K. Lynn Stoner, Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez (2000) Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography p48
- ^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
- ^ "Women Representatives", The Tampa Tribune, 6 April 1936, p2
- ^ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127