Jeannette Rankin was born on a Montana ranch in 1880. She would leave this land to become one of America's great feminist pioneers of the 20th century. Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916. In a span of 60 years, Rankin was a political leader, a leading suffragette, an outspoken pacifist- a feminist decades ahead of her time.
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Jeannette Rankin was born on a Montana ranch in 1880. She would leave this land to become one of America's great feminist pioneers of the 20th century. Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress, in 1916. In a span of 60 years, Rankin was a political leader, a leading suffragette, an outspoken pacifist- a feminist decades ahead of her time.
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