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Born
Clara Campoamor was born on February 12 in Madrid. -
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Beginning in the world of work
At the age of 10, after the death of her father, Clara had to start working to help with the family economy. She worked as a seamstress, telephone operator and clerk in a store. -
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Oppositions
At the age of 21, he competed in the Post and Telegraph Corps and won them. -
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Auxiliary
After winning the examinations he began working as an assistant in San Sebastian. -
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Other oppositions
In 1914 Clara took other options as a teacher in the Ministry of Public Instruction, she obtained first place in the results, but she could only teach shorthand and typing. She decided to continue her studies. -
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Return to Spain
She returned to Madrid and was assigned as a special teacher of shorthand and typing in ‘Adult Schools’. -
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Next years
She also worked as a French translator and as the director's secretary for a newspaper. She became interested in the world of politics and so she learned that this was also her place. -
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High school
He began his high school studies in 1920, obtained his degree on March 21, 1923, and could teach all kinds of classes in the classroom. -
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Title of law
After graduating from high school, he enrolled in law school and earned a bachelor’s degree. -
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Joining the Madrid Bar Association
After Victoria Kent she was the second woman to join this school. -
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Joined the Liberal Socialist Group
In 1929 it entered the committee of Socialist Liberal Grouping. -
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Promoter
She was one of the great promoters of women's suffrage in Spain. -
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Joined the Radical Party
She was elected deputy in Madrid in the 1931 elections to the radical party -
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Exercise
He exercised for the first time for women -
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Abandonment of the political party
He left the Radical Party -
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Publication of his book
He wrote the book ‘My Deadly Sin. The female vote and me. -
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Civil War
When the Civil War began he went into exile and in 1937 he published another book in Paris, ‘The Spanish Revolution as Seen by a Republican’, and narrated his experience in Madrid. -
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Buenos Aires
In 1983 she moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina where she worked as a translator.
He lived there for a decade. -
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Switzerland
In 1955 he moved to Lausanne, Switzerland and worked at a law firm until he lost his sight. -
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Died
Clara Campoamor died in Lausanne of cancer.
She is buried in San Sebastián.