Magdalena_Antonelli_Moreno

Magdalena Antonelli Moreno

Magdalena Antonelli Moreno

Uruguayan politician

Magdalena Antonelli Moreno (9 May 1877 – 1955) was a Uruguayan politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to General Assembly, serving in the Chamber of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.

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Biography

Antonelli was born in San Carlos in 1877. She became head of the Women's Committee for Peace through Democracy of Uruguay.[2]

In the 1942 general elections she was placed eleventh on the Colorado Party list for Montevideo, and was elected to the Chamber of Representatives as the party won 13 seats,[3] becoming one of the first group of four women in Congress. In 1946 her proposed amendments to the Civil Code to introduce gender equality were approved by Congress.[4] She lost her seat in the 1946 elections, but subsequently served as an substitute member on several occasions.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Mabel Barboza (1996) Historias locales del Uruguay: 1. San Carlos, p189
  2. [2]
    Pan American Union Bulletin, volume 81, p40
  3. [3]
    Las mujeres uruguayas están en el Parlamento desde hace 68 años La República, 9 March 2011
  4. [4]
    Asuncion Lavrin (1998) Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940, p223


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