Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress. A Republican and a lifelong pacifist, she was the only member of Congress to vote against United States entry in both World War I and World War II. She also led resistance to the Vietnam War.

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Rankin, the daughter of a rancher and a schoolteacher, was born in Grant Creek, Montana. She attended the University of Montana and graduated in 1902.

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In 1908 she moved to New York City, where she started a career as a social worker.

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She later moved to Seattle, Washington, and then enrolled at the University of Washington, where she joined the incipient suffrage movement. She played an instrumental role in the movement's fight to grant women the right to vote in Montana, brought to fruition in 1914.

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