Carlota Ramos de Santolaya

Ramos was born in Piura in 1910. She became a poet and entertainer, and was the first president of the Piura Artistic Literary Group.^[1]

After women gained the right to vote and stand as candidates, she contested the 1956 Chamber of Deputies elections as a Pradist Democratic Movement candidate in Piura, and was one of nine women elected to Congress.^[1][2] After entering parliament, she sat on the Social Assistance commission, the Women and Minors commission and the Worship commission.^[1] She remained a member of Congress until 1962 and later became mayor of Piura in 1976. She died in 1994.^[1]