Rosa Anders Causse

Rosa Anders Causse
Member of the House of Representatives
In office
1936–1938
ConstituencyCamagüey Province
Personal details
BornSantiago de Cuba, Cuba

Rosa Anders Causse was a Cuban lawyer and politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.

Biography

Anders was born in Santiago de Cuba.[1] She was one of the first women to earn a law degree at the University of Havana,[2] and after moving to Camagüey Province, also became the first woman to work as a public defender in Cuba.[1]

She was a Liberal Party candidate for the House of Representatives in Camagüey in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote. She was one of seven women elected,[3] winning by just one vote.[4] She served in the House until 1938.[5]

References

  1. ^ a b Dora Luz García Santos (2009) Rosas de Acero: Catálogo de Mujeres Camagüeyanas Anales de Investigación, issue 5, pp87–89
  2. ^ K. Lynn Stoner, Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez (2000) Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography p48
  3. ^ Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236
  4. ^ "Women Representatives", The Tampa Tribune, 6 April 1936, p2
  5. ^ Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127