María Rosa Calviño de Gómez was an

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politician. She was elected to the

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

Biography

Calviño was born in Buenos Aires and became a secondary school teacher. She married Alberto Manuel Gómez and had two sons.''Quien es quien en la Argentina: Biografias contemporaneas''
p304 In the 1951 legislative elections Calviño was a Peronist Party candidate and one of six women elected to the Senate, Representing the Federal Capital, she became chair of the Education Committee and sat on the Budget and Finance Committee and the Municipal Committee.
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', Senado de la Nación, 1952 The following year she was appointed secretary general of the

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. She remained a senator until the

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in 1955.

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