In 1916 this Missoula, Montana native became the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
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Jeannette Rankin | Women's History Matters  Apr 1, 2014 ... Jeannette Rankin: Suffragist, Congresswoman, Pacifist ... Jeannette Rankin of Missoula, Montana, was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of ... she ran for Congress as a Progressive Republican in 1916 and won ... On November 3, 1914, Montana became the eleventh state to empower women with...
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Encyclopdia Britannica's Guide to Women's History  born June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana, U.S. ... first woman member of the U.S. Congress (191719, 194143), a vigorous feminist and a lifetime ... year she led a successful campaign for woman suffrage in her native Montana. In 1916 she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, thus becoming the first...
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Ex-Rep. Jeanette Rankin Dies; First Woman in Congress, 92  May 20, 1973 ... Jeanette Rankin Dies; First Woman in Congress, 92 ... A Republican from Missoula, Mont., she ran her campaigns on a peace platform. ... to liberate Jeanette Rankin in 1916, when, as the United States moved toward war ... I will not only represent the women of Montana, but also the women of the country,...
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin - Top 10 American Political Prodigies ...  Oct 14, 2010 ... The Montana native made history in 1916 when at the age of 36 she became the first woman elected to Congress. The Suffragist grew up the eldest of seven children in Missoula and was treated by her...
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Jeannette Rankin | American politician | Britannica.com  First woman member of the U.S. Congress (191719, 194143), a vigorous feminist and a ... Jeannette Rankin, (born June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana, U.S.died May 18, ... In 1916 she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, thus ... After the war she became a lobbyist and later returned to social work.
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Margaret Chase Smith - Wikipedia  Margaret Madeline Chase Smith (December 14, 1897  May 29, 1995) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she served as a U.S Representative (1940-1949) and a U.S. Senator (1949-1973) from Maine. She was the first woman to serve in both houses of the United States ... Upon leaving office, she was the longest-serving female Senator in history,...
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Patricia Schroeder - Wikipedia  Patricia Nell Scott "Pat" Schroeder (born July 30, 1940) is an American former politician who represented Colorado in the United States House of Representatives from 19731997. A member of the Democratic Party, Schroeder was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado. ... While in Congress, she became the first woman to serve on the House...
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Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected as the first female governor in the ...  Nellie Tayloe Ross (November 29, 1876  December 19, 1977) was an ... She was the first woman to be elected governor of a U.S. state, and remains the only ... 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman governor of a state (Wyoming). .... home state of Montana to amend their constitutions to enfranchise women,...
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Women in Congress, 1917-2015: Biographical and ... - U.S. Senate  Apr 27, 2015 ... The first woman elected to Congress was Representative Jeannette Rankin ... the House of Representatives; 35 (21 Democrats, 14 Republicans) ... A total of 38 African American women have served in Congress (1 in the Senate, 37 in the ... Congress (nine in the House, one in both the House and Senate),...
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Game Show NewsNet  Oct 26, 2005 ... Final Jeopardy! in "Women in Politics": elected in 1916, she was the subject of a 1995 biography called "Bright Star in the Big Sky". Correct...
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Jeannette Rankin - Wikipedia  Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880  May 18, 1973) was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana. ... A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members (total of 56 in both chambers) who opposed the...
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Jeannette Rankin - Conservapedia  Jul 21, 2016 ... She was the only member of Congress to vote against the United States' entry into World War II, and also voted against entering World War I during her first term. ... The press reported that she had cried on the House floor, and while Rankin admitted to crying during the debate, she claimed to have...
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Lindy Boggs, Longtime Representative and Champion of Women, Is ...  Jul 27, 2013 ... Mrs. Boggs succeeded her husband in Congress after his plane crashed in Alaska. She went on serve nine terms and to champion women's rights. ... Her daughter, the ABC News commentator Cokie Roberts, ... Three years earlier, she had become the first woman from Louisiana elected to the House.
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RANKIN, Jeannette | US House of Representatives: History, Art ...  When Rankin decided in 1916 to run for a House seat from Montana, she ... Some national woman suffrage leaders feared she would lose and hurt the cause. ... And this was the first opportunity for Montana women to vote in a federal election. ... a crying schoolgirl, even though Montana mail to Rankin's office ran against...
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Hispanic Americans in Congress -- Ros-Lehtinen - Library of Congress  Republican of Florida. One Hundred First - One Hundred Ninth Congresses August 29, 1989 - Present. The first Hispanic woman elected to Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, was born in ... She served until 1986, when she became a State Senator. ... She served as State Senator until 1989, when she was elected to the U.S....
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First elected female senator - Jan 12, 1932 - HISTORY.com  On this day in History, First elected female senator on Jan 12, 1932. ... Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, a Democrat from Arkansas, becomes the first woman to be elected .... four-wheel vehicle, dubbed the 999, with a wooden chassis but no body or...
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Women in the United States House of Representatives - Wikipedia  Women have served in the United States House of Representatives since the 1917 entrance of ... She thereby became a placeholder merely finishing out her late husband's elected term. ... Smith of Maine, who served a total of 32 years in both houses and became the first woman elected to both the House and the Senate.
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Biographies | National Women's History Project  She served 3 terms in Congress (1970-1976) where she worked to end the ... A member of the Cherokee nation, in 1980 Adamson founded the First .... She was vice-president of NAACP from 1940 to 1955. ... Braun was the first black woman Senator, serving from 1992 to 1998, after ..... Sister Claretta Easter ( 1901-1998 )
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Yvonne Brathwaite Burke (born October 5, 1932 | Facebook  Nov 23,1973. Representative Yvonne Burke became the first member of Congress to give birth while in office when her daughter, Autumn Roxanne Burke, was...
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On This Day... in 1916: Jeannette Rankin Becomes First Woman ...  Mar 4, 2013 ... On this day in 1916, Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman elected to the United ... Her success sparked a long line of women in Congress whose ... by the press that she lost, Rankin wound up winning by over 7,500 votes. ... that "as a woman I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.
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American women in politics - UPI Archives - UPI.com  Jul 14, 1984 ... Y., became the first woman to be tapped as a vice presidential running mate ... 'Ever since Abigail Adams helped her husband write the Declaration of ... political ascent by winning election to the New York State Assembly. ... Pat Schroeder, D-Colo., first ran for Congress in 1972 and got a seat on the...