Magdalena Antonelli Moreno (9 May 1877 – 1955) was a
Uruguay
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an politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to
General Assembly
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, serving in the
Chamber of Representatives from 1943 to 1947.
Biography
Antonelli was born in
San Carlos in 1877. She became head of the Women's Committee for Peace through Democracy of Uruguay.
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,
[Las mujeres uruguayas están en el Parlamento desde hace 68 años]
''La República'', 9 March 2011 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.
[Asuncion Lavrin (1998) ]
Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890-1940
', p223 She lost her seat in the
1946 elections, but subsequently served as an substitute member on several occasions.
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References
1877 births
People from San Carlos, Uruguay
20th-century Uruguayan women politicians
20th-century Uruguayan politicians
Members of the Chamber of Representatives of Uruguay
Colorado Party (Uruguay) politicians
1955 deaths
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