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Born
She was born in poverty in the rural village of Los Toldos, in the Pampas, as the youngest of five children. -
Career
At the age of 15, she moved to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires to pursue a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. -
Marriage
She met Colonel Juan Perón on 22 January 1944 during a charity event at the Luna Park Stadium to benefit the victims of an earthquake in San Juan, Argentina. The two were married the following year. -
After the elections
Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina. During the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the pro-Peronist trade unions, primarily for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party. -
the first lady of Argetina
After the "Rainbow Tour" of Europe which was not a political tour but a non-political "goodwill" tour, Eva Perón was featured in a cover story for Time magazine. The cover's caption – "Eva Perón: Between two worlds, an Argentine rainbow" – was a reference to the name given to Eva's European tour. This was the only time in the periodical's history that a South American first lady appeared alone on its cover.