1. Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal, commonly known as Pacita Madrigal-Warns, later Pacita Warns Gonzales, was a Filipina ballet dancer, former beauty queen, and politician.
16 Facts About Pacita Madrigal-Warns
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns served as the administrator of the Social Welfare Administration under Ramon Magsaysay's cabinet from 1953 to 1955 and was a Senator of the Philippines from 1955 to 1961 during the Third and Fourth Congresses.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns was the second woman to be elected to the Philippine Senate.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns studied in Philippine Women's University and became Colegio de San Juan de Letran's Princess of Education at the age of fifteen.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns graduated class valedictorian in the same school, and later entered Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns took finishing courses at the Le College Feminin de Bouffemont in France, and at Dale Carnegie Course and Powers School in New York.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns was defeated by Clarita Tankiang, a Chinese mestiza, for the crown.
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In 1941, Pacita Madrigal-Warns was in New York when the Second World War reached the Philippines.
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From 1945 to 1953, Pacita Madrigal-Warns managed her husband's ballet school.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns established the Samahang Manang Pacita which focused on community development.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns became the second female senator of the Philippines after Geronima Pecson.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns was the lone woman in the upper house during the 3rd and 4th Congresses.
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In 1956, Pacita Madrigal-Warns married Gonzalo Wilfrado Gonzales, a lawyer, after the death of Herman Warns.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns Madrigal was married to Herman Warns from 1945 until his death in 1956.
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At the death of Warns, Pacita Madrigal-Warns married lawyer Gonzalo Wilfrado Rafols Gonzalez, son of Bienvenido Ma.
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Pacita Madrigal-Warns is the aunt of Jamby Madrigal, who served as senator from 2004 to 2010.