Jeannette Rankin
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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880-1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and she was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States.
She was first elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 and then in 1940. Both of Rankin's congressional terms coincided with the beginning of US military involvement in the two World Wars.
She was one of 50 House representatives who protested the declaration of war in 1917. She was a lifelong pacifist.
Following the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, she was the only member of Congress not to vote against declaring war on Japan. Rankin arranged and lobbied for legislation to enfranchising women in many states, including Montana, New York, and North Dakota, as a suffragist during the Progressive Era.
When she was in Congress, she introduced legislation that became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting women unrestricted voting rights.
Throughout a career that spanned more than six decades, she championed a multitude of different women's rights and civil rights causes.
Early life
Rankin was born on June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana Territory, nine years before the territory became a state, to schoolteacher Olive (née Pickering) and Scottish-Canadian immigrant John Rankin, a wealthy mill owner. She was the eldest of six children, including five siblings (one of whom died in childhood), Wellington, Montana's attorney general, and later a Montana Supreme Court justice. Edna Rankin McKinnon, one of her sisters' first Montana-born women to pass the bar exam and was a pioneer of birth control.
Rankin had a variety of chores as an adolescent on her family's farm, sewing, farm work, camping, and caring for her younger siblings. She helped maintain the ranch equipment and even built a wooden sidewalk for a house owned by her father so that it could be rented. While women of the 1890s western frontier struggled side by side as equals with men, they did not have a political voice nor the ability to vote, according to Rankin.
Rankin graduated from high school in 1898. She studied at the University of Montana, graduating in 1902 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. She investigated a variety of fields, including dressmaking, furniture design, and teaching before beginning to work in politics and advocacy. Rankin took on the responsibility of caring for her younger siblings after her father died in 1904.
Later life
Over the next two decades, Rankin has travelled the world, often visiting India, where she studied Mahatma Gandhi's pacifist teachings. She lived in both Georgia and Montana.
A new generation of pacifists, feminists, and civil rights campaigners found inspiration in Rankin in the 1960s and 1970s and adopted her ideas in ways that her predecessors didn't. She mobilized once more in response to the Vietnam War. The Jeannette Rankin Brigade, a group of women's peace organisations, organized an anti-war march in Washington, D.C., in January 1968 — the largest march by women since the 1913 Woman Suffrage Parade. 5,000 protesters from Union Station to the Capitol Building's steps, where they presented a peace petition to House Speaker John McCormack. Simultaneously, a splinter group of the women's liberation movement staged a resistance protest within the Brigade's movement by staging a "Burial of True Womenhood" at Arlington National Cemetery to bring attention to the passive role allotted to women as wives and mothers. Rankin, who was in her nineties, planned a third House bid to gain a larger audience for her resistance to the Vietnam War, but long-standing throat and heart disease forced her to drop the final campaign.
Personal life
Rankin never married. The women were never intimately involved while she maintained a lifelong, close friendship with journalist and author Katherine Anthony. The biographers of Rankin disagree on her sexual orientation, but most agree that her work was too occupied to pursue committed personal relationships.
