Jeannette
Rankin
1880-1973
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. She was
on hand the last few times that the US declared war, and being a
lifelong pacifist, she didn't vote in favor of any of them.
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