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Helena Z. Benitez

Helena Benitez
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Member of the Batasang Pambansa from Cavite
In office
July 23, 1984 – March 25, 1986
Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from Southern Tagalog
In office
June 12, 1978 – June 5, 1984
Senator of the Philippines
In office
December 30, 1967 – September 23, 1972
Personal details
Born Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez
(1914-06-27)June 27, 1914
Manila, Philippine Islands
Died July 14, 2016(2016-07-14) (aged 102)
Nationality Filipino
Parents Conrado Benitez (father)
Francisca Tirona (mother)
Alma mater Philippine Women's University
George Washington University
University of Chicago
Iowa State College
Occupation educator and politician
Religion Roman Catholic

Helena Zoila Tirona Benitez (June 27, 1914 – July 14, 2016) was a Filipina academic and administrator of the Philippine Women's University.

Benitez was born in Manila to Conrado Benitez, a pensionado to the United States and a member of the 1935 Constitutional Convention, and Francisca Tirona who was an educator and co-founder of Philippine Women's College in 1919. She served in the Senate of the Philippines from 1967 until Congress was closed when martial law was declared in 1972, and at the Batasang Pambansa from 1978 until it was abolished in 1986. Benitez also founded the Bayanihan Dance Company. Benitez died on July 14, 2016, aged 102.


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