Jeanette Rankin

Standard Name: Rankin, Jeanette

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1916: Four years before American women won the...

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1916

Four years before American women won the right to the suffrage (on 18 August 1920) Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the USCongress .
Loth, Renée. “A Lone Woman’s Voice”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 5, Sept.–Oct. 2006, pp. 18-19.
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8 December 1941: US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the...

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8 December 1941

US Representative Jeanette Rankin cast the sole dissenting vote in Congress against the American declaration of war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Greenspan, Karen. The Timetables of Women’s History. Simon and Shuster, 1994.
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