Herminia Rodríguez Fernández Explained

Office1:	Member of the House of Representatives
Term1:	1936–1944
Constituency1:	Camagüey Province
Successor1:	Wilfredo Figuero Gonzalez
Death Date:	15 January 1944

Herminia Rodríguez Fernández (died 15 January 1944) was a Cuban politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.

Biography

Rodríguez was a Nationalist Union candidate for the House of Representatives in Camagüey Province in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote, and was one of seven women elected.^[1] She was re-elected as a Republican Democratic Party candidate in 1940, serving in the House until her death on 15 January 1944.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
2. http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/1955/DLM-12-14-1955-2-mujeres.pdf En Cuba sólo han sido Representates veinte mujeres, desde el 1936
3. Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127