Josefina Valencia
Josefina Valencia | |
|---|---|
| Minister of National Education | |
| In office 16 September 1956 – 10 May 1957 | |
| President | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
| Preceded by | Gabriel Betancourt Mejía |
| Succeeded by | Próspero Carbonell MacAusland |
| Governor of Cauca | |
| In office 21 September 1955 – 16 September 1956 | |
| Appointed by | Gustavo Rojas Pinilla |
| Preceded by | Tomás Castrillón Muñoz |
| Succeeded by | Víctor Gómez Gómez |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Josefina Valencia Muñoz 22 September 1913 |
| Died | 4 October 1991 (aged 78) |
| Resting place | Museo Guillermo León Valencia |
| Party | National Popular Alliance |
| Other political affiliations | Conservative |
| Spouse |
Enrique Hubach Eggers
(m. 1943; dead 1968) |
| Relations | Valencia family |
| Children | Martha Hubach Valencia Erna Hubach Valencia |
| Occupation | Politician |
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Josefina Valencia de Hubach (née Valencia Muñoz; 22 September 1913 – 4 October 1991) was a Colombian politician, and the first woman to be appointed governor of a Colombian department as Governor of Cauca, and the first woman to be appointed to a cabinet-level position as the 46th Minister of National Education of Colombia.
A leader of the women's suffrage movement in Colombia, she became the first woman to be appointed to serve in a national legislative position in Colombia as part of the National Constituent Assembly in 1954 where she helped introduce what would eventually be the Legislative Act No. 3, which modified Article 171 of the Colombian Constitution of 1886 that granted universal suffrage to women.