Elvira Rodríguez Leonardi de Rosales was an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

politician. She was elected to the

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in 1951 as one of the first group of female parliamentarians in Argentina.

Biography

In the 1951 legislative elections Rodríguez Leonardi was a

Peronist Party The Justicialist Party ( es, Partido Justicialista, ; abbr. PJ) is a major political party in Argentina, and the largest branch within Peronism. Current president Alberto Fernández belongs to the Justicialist Party (and has, since 2021, served ...

candidate and one of six women elected to the Senate. Representing Córdoba, she sat on the Constitutional Affairs committee and served as secretary of the Budget and Finance committee. She resigned from the Senate in December 1954 due to her opposition to a bill legalising divorce. She was subsequently expelled from the Peronist Party and also prevented from returning to her previous job as a teacher.James Brennan (2016
''Region and Nation: Politics, Economy and Society in Twentieth Century Argentina''
p152

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