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First Woman Elected to U.S Congress
Jeannette Rankin was a distinguished American politician and women’s rights advocate. She was the first woman in the country to hold federal office. She was elected twice by the state of Montana to the United States House of Representatives. Till date she also holds the record of being the only woman to be elected to Congress from Montana. Throughout her life she remained a pacifist and was an ardent supporter of non-interventionism. Out of all the House members she was the only one who stood against the war declaration of 1917. In 1941, when Pearl Harbour was attacked she was the only Congress member who voted against announcing war on Japan. Here is a treasury of wise, insightful, famous and enlightening quotes and sayings by Jeannette Rankin. Take a look at the corpus of quotable quotes and thoughts by Jeannette Rankin on opportunity, freedom, unity, prove, people, unity, possible, vote, human, life, time, settle, stand, accomplishment, voting, democracy, integrity, race etc.