Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress, was one of 57 Representatives to vote against entry into World War I. Defeated for re-election, she ran again some years later, and was elected in time to be the only vote in the House against entry into World War II.
Jeannette Rankin is shown here in a photograph taken in about 1940.
Jeannette Rankin About 1940
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