Carolina "Carola" Correa de Rojas Pinilla (born Carolina Correa Londoño; 25 January 1905 – 15 July 1986) was the wife of the

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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (12 March 1900 – 17 January 1975) was a Colombian Army general, civil engineer and dictator who ruled as 19th President of Colombia as from June 1953 to May 1957. Rojas Pinilla gained prominence as a colonel during La ...

, and served as

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from 1953 to 1957. On 25 May 1956 Correa, as First Lady of Colombia, was the first woman to be granted a

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, the Colombian national

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that extended citizenship to women and allowed them to participate in the political process. Her ''cédula'' number was 20,000,001; her daughter

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was granted the next card, number 20,000,002. Colombian women, including Correa and her daughter, were able to vote for the first time on 1 December 1957 during a national

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Personal life

Carolina Correa Londoño was born on 25 January 1905 in

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to Emilio Correa Correa and Emilia Londoño Jaramillo. She married

on 10 May 1930 at the Chapel of Saint Joseph of the Congregation of Christian Brothers in Medellín. Gustavo and Carolina had three children: Gustavo Emilio,

, and Carlos.

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Personal life

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