Esther Neira de Calvo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Esther Neira de Calvo

Date of Birth: 01-May-1890

Place of Birth: Penonomé, Coclé, Coclé Province, Panama

Date of Death: 28-Mar-1978

Profession: politician, suffragette, educator

Nationality: Panama

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Esther Neira de Calvo (1890-1978) was a teacher, women's rights activist and suffragette, and Constituent Assemblywoman of Panama.
She was the first woman deputy to serve the National Assembly as a national delegate.
She was founder and president of the League of Patriotic Feminists and actively worked as a suffragette for Panamanian women's enfranchisement.
From 1949-1965 she served as executive secretary of the Inter-American Commission of Women and from 1966-1968 she was Panama's ambassador and alternate representative to the Organization of American States.