Josefina Valencia Muñoz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Josefina Valencia Muñoz

Colombian politician

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: Popayán, Cauca Department, Colombia

Date of Death: 04-Oct-1991

Profession: politician, diplomat, suffragette

Nationality: Colombia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Josefina 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.