Pacita Madrigal-Warns
| Pacita Madrigal-Warns | |
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| Senator of the Philippines | |
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In office December 30, 1955 – December 30, 1961 |
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| Secretary of Social Welfare Administration | |
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In office 1953–1955 |
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| President | Ramon Magsaysay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal May 4, 1915 Manila, Philippine Islands |
| Died | September 12, 2008 (aged 93) Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party | Nacionalista Party |
| Spouse(s) | Herman Warns (m. 1945, d. 1956) Gonzalo Wilfrado Gonzales (m. 1956) |
| Children | 2 (1 each from Warns and Gonzales) |
| Alma mater |
Sorbonne University University of Santo Tomas |
Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal-Warns (May 4, 1915 - September 12, 2008), commonly known as Pacita Madrigal-Warns (from 1945 to 1956), later Pacita Madrigal-Gonzales (from 1956 until her death), was a Filipina ballet dancer, and politician. She served as the administrator of the Social Welfare Administration under Ramon Magsaysay's cabinet from 1953-1955 and was a Senator of the Philippines from 1955 to 1961 during the Third and Fourth Congresses. She was the second woman to be elected to the Philippine Senate.
Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal was born on May 4, 1915 to Vicente Madrigal López of Albay, a Filipino-Spanish business tycoon and senator from 1945 to 1953 and Susana Ramos Paterno of Laguna. Second of seven siblings, Maria Paz, or Pacita, grew up in San Miguel, Manila.
Pacita studied in Philippine Women's University and became Colegio de San Juan de Letran's Princess of Education at the age of fifteen. She graduated class valedictorian in the same school, and later entered Sorbonne University in Paris. She took business administration degree at the University of Santo Tomas where she graduated magna cum laude. She also took finishing courses at the Le Collège Féminin de Bouffemont in France, and at Dale Carnegie Course and Powers School in New York.
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