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PACITA MADRIGAL-GONZALEZ
1915 to 12 September 2008
Pacita Madrigal became the second woman to be elected to the Senate where she served between 1955 and 1961.
Pacita Madrigal was the daughter of the influential senator and millionaire Vicente Madrigal and Susana Paterno. In 1953, she organized the Womens' Magsaysay for President Movement that helped elect Ramon Magsaysay to the Presidency of the Philippines and following his vicotry she was appointed Social Welfare Administrator in 1954.
Two years later, she decided to run for the Philippine Senate, where at age 40, she topped the elections. As cabinet member she was involved in some 40 committees, councils, commissions, boards and institutes
Her first marriage was to Herman Warns, a Manila Gas Corporation executive but was widowed and in 1956 re-married the Lawyer Gonzalo Gonzalez.
She was defeated for re-election to the Senate in 1961 after accusations arose about her misappropriation of public funds in 1956. Had her credibility not been damaged by the charges, she could have posed as a serious threat to Carlos Garcia’s presidential candidacy in 1961.
Birth Centenary #3646, 22 Dec 2015
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