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Jeannette Rankin
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum.

Jeannette Rankin

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She was an American politician and women’s rights advocate who became the first woman in the United States to hold federal office. She was a Republican elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916, representing Montana.