Josefa Sánchez de González

A teacher by profession, Sánchez de González was a candidate in Santiago Province the 1942 general elections, the first after women were granted the right to vote. With the Dominican Party of president Rafael Trujillo being the sole legal party, she was elected unopposed and became one of the first three women in the Congress.^[1][2] The following year, she served as General Secretary of the first Dominican Women's Congress.^[2] In 1945 she was appointed director of the women's section of the Dominican Party.^[3]