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Elva Pilar Barreiro de Roulet (born 1932), more commonly known as Elva Roulet, is an Argentine architect and politician who was Vice Governor of
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from 1983 to 1987. She also served as Secretary of Housing and Environmental Structuring of Argentina from 1987 to 1989, during the presidency of
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, and as a member of the 1994 Constituent Assembly. Elected in the
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(UCR) ticket alongside
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, Roulet was the first woman to serve as vice governor and the first woman elected in a gubernatorial ticket of any Argentine province. No other woman would hold that office until 1999, when Mercedes Oviedo was elected Vice Governor of
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. Roulet was born in 1932 in Juan Nepomuceno Fernández, a small town in the Necochea Partido of Buenos Aires Province. She studied architecture at the
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, graduating in 1957. She then went on to earn a degree on Developmental Social Sciences from the
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. She was married to Jorge Esteban Roulet (1928–1987), an engineer and UCR activist who was dean of the University of Buenos Aires Faculty of Engineering in 1974.


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