Eva Peróni
Born 7 May 1919

Argentine feminists had campaigned for the vote for decades, but it was Eva Perón who pushed the 1947 suffrage law through and then built the machine that turned it into seats. Her Peronist Women's Party, founded in 1949, ran thousands of local branches, and in the 1951 elections, the first in…

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