Biography
Jeannette Pickering Rankin is most widely known as the first woman elected into Congress. A Republican, she was first elected by her home state of Montana in 1916, and then again in 1941. Her domestic and foreign politics lie within the strict lines of Pacifism, and despite overwhelming unpopularity at the time, have resulted in a legacy that helped propel the second wave of feminism and pacifism during the 1960s and 1970s.
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