Julia Arévalo

Julia Arévalo de Roche (1 July 1898 – 18 August 1985) was a Uruguayan politician. She was one of the first group of women elected to General Assembly, serving in the Chamber of Representatives from 1943 to 1947 and then the Senate from 1947 to 1951.

Biography Arévalo was born in Barriga Negra in Lavalleja Department in 1898.

In 1920 she was a founding member of the Communist Party, becoming one of its leaders in 1934. In 1945 she was one of the founders of the Women's International Democratic Federation. serving from 1947 to 1951. She subsequently served had two spells as an edila for the Montevideo municipality between 1959 and 1967.

Married with six children, she died in August 1985.