Jeannette Rankin for Congress
April 2, 1917 - Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, took her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The first woman ever elected to Congress, she became the only member to vote against U.S. entry into both 4world wars.
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Jeanette Rankin
January 15, 1968 - The Jeanette Rankin Brigade marched on Washington to protest the war in Vietnam.
It was led by 87-year-old Rankin herself, the first U.S. Congresswoman (R-Montana), and the only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both world wars.
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Jeanette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. The first full scale biography of her has just come out and reveals an activist who paved the way for those after her. Review--> #Bookthreads #BookSky #BookReview #WinningtheEarthquake #StMartinsPress #NetGalley #ARCReview #JeanetteRankin
April 2, 1917 - Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, took her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The first woman ever elected to Congress, she became the only member to vote against U.S. entry into both world wars.
April 2, 1917 - Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, took her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. The first woman ever elected to Congress, she became the only member to vote against U.S. entry into both world wars.
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On this day in 1917, Jeanette Pickering Rankin made history as the first woman elected to Congress. A suffrage leader and pacifist, she stood firm as the only Member of Congress to vote against entering both World War I and World War II. #JeanetteRankin #WomenInPolitics #HistoryMakers
Republican congresswoman #HarrietHageman facing her constituents in #Wyoming. She wondered “why they obsessed by the federal government” while defending DOGE & tariffs.
#JeanetteRankin wept.
