More than 200 women have served in the United States House of Representatives. From 1789 to 1916, the House was all-male. Following is an index of the women who've been Representatives -- sometimes called Congresswomen or Congressmen -- beginning with the first in 1917. They are listed by the year they first took office.
Jeannette Rankin
Republican - Montana
Served: 1917-1919, 1941-1943
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Alice Mary Robertson
Republican - Oklahoma
Served: 1921-1923
Winnifred S. Huck
Republican - Illinois
Served: 1922-1923
Mae Ella Nolan
Republican - California
Served: 1923-1925
Florence P. Kahn
Republican - California
Served: 1925-1937
Mary T. Norton
Democrat - New Jersey
Served: 1925-1951
Edith Nourse Rogers
Republican - Massachusetts
Served: 1925-1960
Katherine Gudger Langley
Republican - Kentucky
Served: 1927-1931
Ruth Hanna McCormick
Republican - Illinois
Served: 1929-1931
Pearl Oldfield
Democrat - Arkansas
Served: 1929-1931
Ruth Bryan Owen
Democrat - Florida
Served: 1929-1933
Ruth Sears Pratt
Republican - New York
Served: 1929-1933
Effiegene Locke Wingo
Democrat - Arkansas
Served: 1930-1933
Willa McCord Blake Eslick
Democrat - Tennessee
Served: 1932-1933
Marian Williams Clarke
Republican - New York
Served: 1933-1935
Kathryn O'Loughlin McCarthy
Democrat - Kansas
Served: 1933-1935
Isabella S. Greenway
Democrat - Arizona
Served: 1933-1937
Virginia Ellis Jenckes
Democrat - Indiana
Served: 1933-1939
Caroline O'Day
Democrat - New York
Served: 1935-1943
Nan Wood Honeyman
Democrat - Oregon
Served: 1937-1939
Elizabeth H. Gasque
Democrat - South Carolina
Served: 1938-1939
Clara G. McMillan
Democrat - South Carolina
Served: 1939-1941
Jessie Sumner
Republican - Illinois
Served: 1939-1947
Florence Reville Gibbs
Democrat - Georgia
Served: 1940-1941
Margaret Chase Smith
Republican - Maine
Served: 1940-1949
Frances Payne Bolton
Republican - Ohio
Served: 1940-1969
Katharine Edgar Byron
Democrat - Maryland
Served: 1941-1943
Veronica Grace Boland
Democrat - Pennsylvania
Served: 1942-1943
Winifred Claire Stanley
Republican - New York
Served: 1943-1945
Clare Boothe Luce
Republican - Connecticut
Served: 1943-1947
Willa Lybrand Fulmer
Democrat - South Carolina
Served: 1944-1945
Emily Taft Douglas
Democrat - Illinois
Served: 1945-1947
Chase Going Woodhouse
Democrat - Connecticut
Served: 1945-1947, 1949-1951
Helen Gahagan Douglas
Democrat - California
Served: 1945-1951
Helen Douglas Mankin
Democrat - Georgia
Served: 1946-1947
Eliza Jane Pratt
Democrat - North Carolina
Served: 1946-1947
Georgia Lee Lusk
Democrat - New Mexico
Served: 1947-1949
Katharine St. George
Republican - New York
Served: 1947-1965
Reva Beck Bosone
Democrat - Utah
Served: 1949-1953
Cecil Murray Harden
Republican - Indiana
Served: 1949-1959
Edna Flannery Kelly
Democrat - New York
Served: 1949-1969
Vera Daerr Buchanan
Democrat - Pennsylvania
Served: 1951-1955
Ruth Thompson
Republican - Michigan
Served: 1951-1957
Marguerite Stitt Church
Republican - Illinois
Served: 1951-1963
Maude Elizabeth Kee
Democrat - West Virginia
Served: 1951-1965
Gracie Bowers Pfost
Democrat - Idaho
Served: 1953-1963
Leonor K. Sullivan
Democrat - Missouri
Served: 1953-1977
Mary E. (Betty) Farrington
Republican - Hawaii
Served: 1954-1957
