Wiki Wanderings: Jeanette Rankin

On this date in 1917, Jeanette Rankin became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States, as a House member from Montana. The 19th Amendment had not yet been passed; Rankin would be on a Committee for Woman's Suffrage and, in 1918, vote for a House resolution supporting the amendment (it was defeated by the Senate, and re-passed in 1919).

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