Eva Estrada Kalaw
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| Senator of the Philippines | |
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In office December 30, 1965 – September 21, 1972 |
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| Assemblywoman from Manila | |
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In office June 30, 1984 – March 25, 1986 Serving with Lito Atienza, Carlos Fernando, Mel Lopez, Gonzalo Puyat II, and Arturo Tolentino |
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Eva Reynada Estrada June 16, 1920 Murcia, Tarlac, Philippine Islands |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party | Nacionalista Party (1965-1971), Liberal Party (1971-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Teodoro V. Kalaw Jr. |
| Children | Teodoro E. Kalaw III Maria Eva Kalaw-Cuenca Salvador E. Kalaw Valerio E. Kalaw |
| Residence | Manila |
| Profession | Professor |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
Eva Estrada Kalaw (born June 16, 1920) is a Filipino stateswoman, served as a Senator in the Senate of the Philippines for 7 years. (1965–1972). Serving in Senate during the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, she was part of a major transformation in Philippine domestic and foreign policies.
Evangelina Reynada Estrada was born in Murcia,Tarlac, now Concepcion, Tarlac on June 16, 1920 to Dr. Salvador Estrada and Demetria Reynada.
She earned her Bachelor of Science in Education major in Home Economics from the University of the Philippines in 1940. She also took up post graduate studies in social work. In between her teaching stints at the Far Eastern University, National Teacher’s College and Centro Escolar University, Eva conscientiously engaged in social work for which she was awarded a citation for being the “Outstanding Volunteer Social Worker of the Year.”
Kalaw was elected senator in 1965 under the Nacionalista Party. She would later move to the Liberal Party because of abuses committed by Marcos and his cohorts, especially after the 1969 elections where Marcos was re-elected to the presidency. During this era of revising and strengthening the government, there was a major rise in student activism—primarily the activism was surged by the presence of governmental corruption and the US presence and dictation in the Philippines. Coinciding with this rise of activism, was the rise of violence and communist ideology. On August 21, 1971, a bomb exploded at a Liberal Party rally at Plaza Miranda injuring several officials, including Senator Estrada-Kalaw. From this point, the Senator was part of a major effort to protest the newly pronounced dictatorship of Marcos, who in 1972 enacted martial law and went on to extend his presidency without limit until its eventual cessation in 1981. She continued participation in the government into the next decade. She was an assemblywoman in the Batasang Pambansa for Manila. She unsuccessfully ran for Vice-President during the 1986 snap elections. After the People Power Revolution, she ran but lost in the senatorial elections under the Grand Alliance for Democracy. In 1992, she ran for Vice President as the running mate of then-Vice President Salvador Laurel who ran for president but both lost respectively to Joseph Estrada and Fidel Ramos.
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