Pacita Madrigal-Warns

Born May 4, 1915 From Manila

Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal-Warns, commonly known as Pacita Madrigal-Warns, later Pacita Madrigal Gonzalez, was a Filipina ballet dancer, former beauty queen, and politician. She served as the administrator of the Social Welfare Administration (SWA) under Ramon Magsaysay's cabinet from 1953 to 1955 and was a Senator of the Philippines from 1955 to 1961 during the Third and Fourth Congresses; she was the second woman to be elected to the Philippine Senate. As a senator, Madrigal-Warns authored the bill that would become Republic Act No. 3060, which created the Board of Censors for Motion Pictures in 1961.

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