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Jeannette Rankin

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Jeannette Rankin
This is a photo of Jeannette Rankin added by Ancient Faces on December 25, 2011.

A pacifistic, Jeanette was in Congress (elected in 1916 and 1940) for the beginning of WW1 and WW2. Both times, she voted against a declaration of war.

In 1914, Montana became the 7th state to grant women the right to vote. An active and outspoken advocate of women's suffrage, Jeanette's run for Congress was financed and managed by her brother Wellington, an influential member of the Montana Republican Party. She won and became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States - and the last one to be a representative from Montana (to date).
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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was the eldest of 6 children (1 died in childhood) - 5 sisters and 1 brother. Her mother was a schoolteacher and her father was a carpenter and rancher. When she was born, Montana wasn't yet a state - it was known as Montana Territory. Having a schoolteacher for a mother must have been an advantage - her brother (Wellington) was Montana's attorney general (later a Montana Supreme Court judge) and one of her sisters, Edna Rankin McKinnon, became the first woman born in Montana to pass the bar and an early activist for birth control. Jeanette, as well as being a women's rights activist, was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States: She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 and again in 1940.
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