Jacinta Parejo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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First Lady of Venezuela
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Place of Birth: Parapara, Venezuela
About Jacinta Parejo
- Jacinta Parejo de Crespo (better known as Misia Jacinta) (August 16, 1845–April 16, 1914) was a Venezuelan public figure and the First Lady of Venezuela from 1884 to 1886 and from 1892 to 1898 during the presidential terms of JoaquĂn Crespo.
- Parejo was the first woman in Venezuela to intercede in official policy in a very involved fashion.
- She held government meetings, worked on projects of the head of state, and at times interceded on the behalf of political prisoners.
- Her second husband was killed in battle in 1898 and Parejo afterwards became the defender of their family's legacy.
- VenezuelaTuya states that the legal succession of Parejo and Crespo was "one of the biggest legal disputes of the early twentieth century in Venezuela."
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