Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Jeanette Rankin
Standard Name: Rankin, Jeanette
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1916
Four years before American women won the right to the suffrage (on 18 August 1920) Jeanette Rankin
became the first woman elected to the USCongress
.
8 December 1941
US Representative Jeanette Rankin
cast the sole dissenting vote in Congress
against the American declaration of war on Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
