1973
Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (born 1880)
Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (born 1880)
Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and politician (born 1880)
Jeannette Rankin
First woman elected to U.S. Congress (1880–1973)
- Died
- 1973
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became 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 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.
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