María Caro Más de Chácon was a Cuban politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.
Biography In 1918 she became editor of Oriente, a weekly magazine.O Diccionario de la literatura Cubana She later became a professor of public instruction,Facetas de la vida de Cuba republicana, 1902–1952, Oficina del Historiador de la Ciudad, 1954, p74 and served as president of the National Council of the Defence of the Child and head of the National Office of Labor for Women and Minors.Reglamentación del trabajo del niño y del adolescente Eighth Pan American Child Congress
She was a Democratic National Association candidate for the House of Representatives in Oriente Province in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote, and was one of seven women elected.Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236 She became the first woman to preside over the House of Representatives on an occasion when both the president and vice president were absent; as she was the oldest member in attendance, she oversaw the session.Mujeres en el Congreso Juventud Rebelde, 12 April 2015 She served in the House until 1940.En Cuba sólo han sido Representates veinte mujeres, desde el 1936 Diario de la Marina, 14 December 1955Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127
She later became chair of the women's division of the National Progressive Coalition, which supported Fulgencio Batista."Women back Batista", The Tampa Tribune, 30 June 1957
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