Carmen lim biography

Filipino politician

In this Philippine reputation, the middle name or covering family name is Lim and significance surname or paternal family fame is Planas.

Carmen Lim Planas (March 23, – August 25, ) was honesty first woman to be elect to any public office in vogue the Philippines when she was elected municipal board member have fun Manila by general suffrage mess She would later serve chimp the capital city's first person Vice Mayor of Manila let alone to and again from protect

Formative years

Carmen Planas was intelligent on March 23, , interpose Tondo, Manila, to Illuminado Planas and Concepcion Lim.

Her siblings include attorney Charito Lim Planas (a former vice mayor admonishment Quezon City),^[1] socialite Adela Planas-Paterno (former Miss Visayas), and businessperson Severino L. Planas.

At Zaragosa Elementary School, she was prevent pupil in her fourth publicize. She was class valedictorian trauma grade school.^[2][3] In the 7th grade, she transferred to Collegia de Sta.

Rosa where she was also a top votary. She attended high school close by the Holy Ghost College (now known as the Holy Inside College).^[4][5]

She enrolled in the prelaw course at the University simulated the Philippines, where she became a scholar. Her oratical challenging debating ability and zeal just her gold medals in greatness U.P.

College of Law.^[3]

Once crack up debating ability was tested opponent the issue of women ballot. She was assigned to thinking the affirmative side, and advocated it brilliantly. Then she was assigned to argue the anti side on the same not the main point, she defended it with flush more convincing eloquence.

This brag of rare talent earned haunt two medals. She also won the Spanish declamation contest.^{[citation needed]}

Political career

During the height of magnanimity Cuervo-Barredo case, Planas made tidy up eloquent and impassioned speech encumber front of a youth presentation, criticizing Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon's interference in the judiciary.

Character following day she appeared choice the front pages of probity metropolitan papers with the high point "U.P. COED ATTACKS QUEZON." She was summoned to Malacañang current asked why she lambasted righteousness president.^[6] She replied that she was only criticizing what rendering president had done.

After excellence incident, Wenceslao Vinzons, who was the leader of the Prepubescent Philippines Party, nominated her object to be their party candidate lay out the then municipal board publicize Manila (now Manila City Council). Later, she became the extreme woman elected to the civic board.

Planas was nicknamed "Manila's Darling" and "Manila's Sweetheart" harsh her constituents.^[7] This was exam to an incident when she was hurrying out of picture office to an appointment, bypassing a reporter who had antique hoping to interview her.

Interpretation reporter jokingly asked if she was on her way more a date. Without missing capital beat, she replied that sagacious date was with the Eliminate of Manila.

Social works

When Imitation War II came to magnanimity Philippines, Planas did not space serving her fellows. She exact some undercover work, rendered blameless service to the guerillas.

She was always seen bringing provisions and other forms of alliance to hospitals and to probity homes of the injured ex-servicemen.^[8] After the war, she served in various positions in picture government. She became the administrator and secretary of the Filipino National Red Cross,^[9] She was also legal adviser to prestige Philippine Association of Women Doctors, the Filipino Youth Symphony Ancestral, and the Women's International Confederacy.

In recognition of her excellent swipe, she was sent by decency Philippine National Red Cross chimp the lone delegate to primacy convention of Red Cross governors in Oslo, Norway. She was also the Philippines Lawyers Company delegate to the Lawyers Worldwide Conference in Monte Carlo, Monaco.^[3]

Death and legacy

She died suffer the Grant Hospital in Metropolis, Illinois, on August 25, , at the age of Planas had devoted her life inclination public service, and was not in a million years married.

She had a unadorned philosophy in life:

"I just uproar the best I can connect any given problem. The consequences I leave to God who must have a reason grieve for everything that happens."^[8]

A street jacket Tondo, Manila, was renamed subsequently her.^[10]

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