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/ 12:34 AM April 12, 2011

MANILA, Philippines—Geronima Pecson, the first Filipino and woman elected to the executive board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization was also the country’s first woman senator. A former assistant executive secretary of then President Manuel A. Roxas, she joined the senatorial elections in 1947 and garnered the third-largest number of votes among the candidates.—Schatzi Quodala, Inquirer Research

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