Rosa Anders Causse was a Cuban lawyer and politician. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1936 as one of the first group of women to enter Congress.
Biography Anders was born in Santiago de Cuba.Dora Luz García Santos (2009) Rosas de Acero: Catálogo de Mujeres Camagüeyanas Anales de Investigación, issue 5, pp87–89 She was one of the first women to earn a law degree at the University of Havana,K. Lynn Stoner, Luis Hipolito Serrano Perez, Luís Hipólito Serrano Pérez (2000) Cuban and Cuban-American Women: An Annotated Bibliography p48 and after moving to Camagüey Province, also became the first woman to work as a public defender in Cuba.
She was a Liberal Party candidate for the House of Representatives in Camagüey in the 1936 general elections, the first in which women could vote. She was one of seven women elected,Velia Cecilia Bobes (2007) La nación inconclusa: (Re) constituciones de la ciudadanía y la identidad nacional en Cuba p236 winning by just one vote."Women Representatives", The Tampa Tribune, 6 April 1936, p2 She served in the House until 1938.Julio César González Pagés (2003) En busca de un espacio--historia de mujeres en Cuba, p127
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