About En Sugawara
Lived 1900 – 1994 (aged 93). En Sugawara was a Japanese politician.
En Sugawara (; 27 February 1900 – 16 February 1994) was a Japanese suffragist and politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to the House of Representatives in 1946.
Biography Sugawara was born in the village of (now part of Ichinoseki) in 1900. She attended and later graduated from in 1929. She also became a member of the Iwate Poets' Association. After the party merged into the Democratic Party, she ran unsuccessfully for the new party in in the 1947 elections. She subsequently contested the 1949 elections as an independent candidate, but failed to be elected.
She died in 1994.
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Japanese politician
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En Sugawara was born on 27 February 1900 in Iwate Prefecture.
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En Sugawara died on 16 February 1994.
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