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She is one of the twelve women honored with a plaque in “La Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorrique\u00f1a” (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women), in San Juan.Early life[edit]Maria Antonia Josefina Barcel\u00f3 Bird was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, the daughter of lawyer and politician Antonio Rafael Barcel\u00f3 and Maria Georgina “Josefina” Bird Arias.[1] Her paternal grandfather, Jaime Jos\u00e9 Barcel\u00f3 Miralles, was an immigrant to Puerto Rico from Palma, Majorca; her maternal grandfather, Jorge Bird Le\u00f3n, was a sugar manufacturer. Josefina Barcel\u00f3 Bird finished her education at the College of the Sacred Heart, a convent school in Kenwood, Albany, New York.[2]After literate Puerto Rican women gained the vote in 1929, Josefina Barcel\u00f3 de Romero worked on woman-to-woman voter education efforts in San Juan, and she was active in the women’s organization of the Liberal Party. Among her responsibilities was arranging childcare, meals, and transportation for new women voters. She joined the Central Board of the Liberal Party in 1936. Josefina Barcel\u00f3 Bird de Romero was elected president of the Liberal Party after her father died in 1938.[3] She was the first woman elected to lead a major political party in Puerto Rico. She continued to hold leadership positions in the party until she resigned and the party dissolved in 1948.[2] She ran unsuccessfully for an at-large Senate seat in 1944.[4]Personal life and legacy[edit]Josefina Barcel\u00f3 Bird married Antonio Romero Moreno in 1918. They had three children (Gloria, Calixto, Carlos) and also raised Antonio’s nephew. Her son Carlos Romero Barcel\u00f3 was elected mayor of San Juan in 1968, and later served as Governor of Puerto Rico; in 2017, he was appointed shadow senator representing Puerto Rico in the United States Senate.[5][6]Josefina Barcel\u00f3 de Romero died in 1979, aged 77 years. She is one of the twelve women honored with a plaque in the “Plaza en Honor a la Mujer Puertorrique\u00f1a” (Plaza in Honor of Puerto Rican Women) in San Juan.[7] There is a public elementary school named for Josefina Barcel\u00f3, at Bayamon, Puerto Rico.[8]See also[edit]^ This name uses Spanish marriage naming customs; the first two are the maiden family name “Barcel\u00f3 Bird” and the second or matrimonial family name is “Romero”.References[edit]^ Carmen Delgado Votaw, Puerto Rican Women: Some Biographical Profiles (National Conference of Puerto Rican Women 1978): 26-27.^ a b Jos\u00e9 Luis Col\u00f3n Gonz\u00e1lez, “Josefina Barcel\u00f3 de Romero: de sufragista an\u00f3nima a ‘jefa liberal'” Asociaci\u00f3n Puertorrique\u00f1a de Investigaci\u00f3n de Historia de las Mujeres.^ “Don Antonio R. Barcel\u00f3 muri\u00f3 a las 8:11 de ma\u00f1ana ayer” Archived 2017-09-06 at the Wayback Machine El Mundo (October 16, 1938): 1.^ Juan Jose Nolla-Acosta, Puerto Rico Election Results, 1899-2012 (Lulu.com 2013): 85. ISBN\u00a09781300671411^ Matthew Andrew Wasniewski, Albin Kowalewski, Laura Turner O’Hara, Terrance Rucker, eds., Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-2012 (Government Printing Office 2013): 596. ISBN\u00a09780160920684^ Anna Giaritelli, “Puerto Rico officials will lobby Congress for statehood” Washington Examiner (July 10, 2017).^ “Asamblea Legislativa homenajea a 12 mujeres ilustres” El Nuevo Dia (March 6, 2014).^ Informaci\u00f3n: Escuela Josefina Barcelo."},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki40\/josefina-barcelo-bird-de-romero\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Josefina Barcel\u00f3 Bird de Romero"}}]}]