Pacita Madrigal-Warns was a Filipino ballet dancer, born in 1915 in Manila, who died in 2008.
Biography
Maria Paz Paterno Madrigal-Warns (nee Madrigal) (May 4, 1915 – September 12, 2008), commonly known as Pacita Madrigal-Warns (from 1945 to 1956), later Pacita Madrigal Gonzalez (from 1956 until her death), 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.
In 1970, a corruption scandal at the National Cottage Industries Development Authority (NACIDA) led to Madrigal-Warns' resignation as its administrator.
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