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Pacita Madrigal-Warns (ca.1950s)

Pacita Madrigal-Warns (maiden name: Maria Paz "Pacita" Madrigal y Paterno ; second married name: Pacita Madrigal-Gonzales ; * May 4, 1915 in Manila ; † September 12, 2008 ibid) was a Filipino politician of the Nacionalista Party , the 1934 candidate was for the title of Miss Philippines awarded during the Manila Carnival . She was later Minister of Social Welfare from 1953 to 1955 and a member of the Senate from 1955 to 1961 .

Life

Studies, World War II and Minister of Social Affairs

Maria Paz "Pacita" Madrigal y Paterno, one of seven children of the entrepreneur and later Senator Vicente Madrigal and his wife Susana Paterno, attended the Colegio de San Juan de Letran , which she graduated as the best in class. She then began studying at the Philippine Women's University ; at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris , she continued it. In 1934 she was a candidate for the title of Miss Philippines , which was awarded during the Manila Carnival . She completed a postgraduate course in business administration at the Pontifical and Royal University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Manila "magna cum laude". She also completed study visits to Le Collège Féminin de Bouffemont in Paris , a motivational course with Dale Carnegie and the Powers School in New York City . During her stay in New York City, on December 7, 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor broke out , which led to the entry of the United States into World War II . She then got involved in the American Red Cross and as a volunteer nurse in the Walter Reed Military Hospital . After the end of World War II , Pacita Madrigal married Herman Warns, Vice President and CEO of the Manila Gas Corporation , in 1945 , and opened her own ballet school.

In 1952 Pacita Madrigal-Warns began her political engagement after joining the League of Women Voters, which she represented at the congress of the International Alliance of Women in Naples . She then represented the Philippines at the Seventh General Assembly of UNESCO in Geneva and Paris. For the presidential election on November 10, 1953, she organized the support of women voters for the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay and after his inauguration became Minister for Social Welfare (Secretary of Social Welfare) . As a cabinet member, she has chaired around 40 committees, councils, commissions, bodies and institutes at various times, such as a member of the Council of State , the Community Development Council , the Slum Elimination Committee ( Slum Clearance Committee) , UNICEF , the Peace and Amelioration Fund Commission , the American-Philippine Guardian Association, and the National Red Cross of the Philippines Roxas Memorial Commission , the Institution de Mujeres , the Pan Pacific Women's Association , the Philippine United Nations Committee on Appeal for Children. She further expanded the Ministry of Social Welfare Administration and at the same time organized the Sahamang Manang Pacita association named after her for the development of the community through the use of women.

Senator 1955 to 1961

Two years later Pacita Madrigal-Warns resigned as minister and applied as a candidate for the Nacionalista Party in the Senate elections of November 8, 1955 for one of the eight seats to be allocated in the Senate . It was elected with 2,544,716 votes (50.4 percent) and thus received the best result among 21 candidates. Thus she became second Senator after Geronima Pecson . She subsequently chaired the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Community Development and Welfare and other Senate committees. After the death of her first husband, she married the lawyer Gonzalo Gonzales, whose father Bienvenido Ma, was a second marriage in 1956. Gonzales was President of the University of the Philippines from 1939 to 1943 and again from 1945 to 1951 .

In the Senate elections on November 14, 1961, she applied for re-election. However, with 2,172,260 votes (32.2 percent), she only achieved eleventh place among 22 candidates and thus missed the re-entry into the Senate, for which eight of the 24 seats were elected. After her resignation from the Senate and the associated loss of political immunity , charges were brought against her for abuse, embezzlement and misuse of public funds of the Social Welfare Administration during her tenure from 1954 to 1955. However, that charge was dismissed in 1963 by the Philippines Supreme Court .

From their two marriages the son Vicente "Bu" Madrigal Warns and the daughter Ana Maria Gizela Madrigal Gonzales emerged. Her niece, Maria Ana Consuelo “Jamby” Madrigal de Valade, was Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Social Welfare and Development from 1992 to 1998 and also a Senator from 2004 to 2010.

Web links

• Entry on the Senate homepage
• 185. Carnival Beauties: PACITA PATERNO MADRIGAL, Candidate, 1934 Miss Philippines . In: Manila Carnivals 1908-1939. A Pictorial History of the "Greatest Annual Event in the Orient"