USA HISTORY

The first woman to serve in Congress, a Representative from Montana, and voted against US declaration of war in WW1 (and later in WW2)

(A) Holly Hunter

(B) Elizabeth Warren

(C) ** Jeannette Rankin

(D) Judith Wilson

Concept note-1: -Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women’s rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States in 1917.

Concept note-2: -Jeannette Rankin’s Biographical Profile Jeannette Rankin’s life was filled with extraordinary achievements: she was the first woman elected to Congress, one of the few suffragists elected to Congress, and the only Member of Congress to vote against U.S. participation in both World War I and World War II.

Concept note-3: -Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin of Montana.

Concept note-4: -No history of American representative government could properly be written without a major reference to Representative Jeannette Rankin. The Montana Republican carries the distinction of being the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. That singular event occurred in 1916.

Concept note-5: -Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in Congress, voted against United States entry into World War I in 1917 and did not run for reelection to the House of Representatives in 1918. Ever since, historians have assumed that Rankin’s “no” vote cost the Congresswoman her seat in Congress.