Lise Girardin
{{short description|Swiss politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}}
{{Infobox Officeholder
|name = Lise Girardin
|birth_name =
|image = ETH-BIB-Lise Girardin-Com L20-0941-0246.tif
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|office = Member of the Council of States
|term_start = 29 November 1971
|term_end = 20 November 1975
|predecessor =
|successor =
|office2 = Member of the Grand Council of Geneva
|term_start2 = November 1961
|term_end2 = November 1973
|predecessor2 =
|successor2 =
|office3 = Mayor of Geneva
|term_start3 = 1 June 1975
|term_end3 = 31 May 1976
|term_start4 = 1 June 1972
|term_end4 = 31 May 1973
|term_start5 = 1 June 1968
|term_end5 = 31 May 1969
|birth_date = {{birth date|1921|2|15|df=y}}
|birth_place = Geneva, Switzerland
|death_date = {{death date and age|2010|10|16|1921|2|15|df=y}}
|death_place =
|party = Free Democratic Party
}}
Lise Girardin (15 February 1921 – 16 October 2010) was a Swiss politician. A member of the Free Democratic Party, she was the first woman to be elected mayor of Geneva and the first woman named to the Council of States. {{cite web | url = http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/First_female_member_of_Senate_dies_.html?cid=28580388 | title = First female member of Senate dies | accessdate = 2012-01-10 | publisher = swissinfo.ch}}{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/01/archives/first-swiss-woman-wins-federal-office.html |title= First Swiss Woman Wins Federal Office |newspaper=New York Times |date=1971-11-01}}
Biography
Lise Girardin was born on 15 February 1921 in Geneva. She graduated from the University of Geneva and became a teacher. In 1960, the Canton of Geneva granted women the right to vote.{{cite news |url= https://lenews.ch/2017/11/25/swiss-fact-some-swiss-women-had-to-wait-until-1991-to-vote/ |title= Swiss fact: some Swiss women had to wait until 1991 to vote |publisher=Le News |date=2017-11-25}} Girardin, who already held a lower judgeship, ran for and won the 1961 election to the Grand Council of Geneva. In 1968, she was elected mayor, the first woman to hold that post.
After a referendum of 1971, Switzerland granted women's suffrage at the federal level.{{cite magazine |url= https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/country-that-didnt-let-women-vote-till-1971/ |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20191110213004/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2016/08/country-that-didnt-let-women-vote-till-1971/ |url-status= dead |archive-date= 10 November 2019 |title= Non! Nein! No! A Country That Wouldn't Let Women Vote Till 1971 |magazine=National Geographic |date=2016-08-26}} In the 1971 elections later that year, Girardin was elected to the Council of States while 10 others were elected to the National Council, making them the first women to sit in the Federal Assembly.{{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HWAaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA88 |title=Swisscellany |last=Bewes |first=Diccon |publisher=Schwabe AG |year=2012|isbn=9783905252514 }}
Girardin left the Council of States after the 1975 Swiss federal election but remained active in politics. She served one more term as Mayor of Geneva and participated in various referendums. Girardin died on October 16, 2010.{{cite news |url= https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz_lise_girardin_gestorben-1.8058519 |title= Lise Girardin im Alter von 89 Jahren gestorben |language=German |publisher=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |date=2010-10-19}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.parlament.ch/fr/biografie/lise-girardin/1203 Listing at Swiss Parliament website]
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Category:Women mayors of places in Switzerland
Category:Members of the Council of States (Switzerland)
Category:20th-century Swiss women politicians
Category:20th-century Swiss politicians
Category:Free Democratic Party of Switzerland politicians
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