Who was the first woman elected to Congress?
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According to the National Archives, Jeannette Rankin was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 7, 1916. Curiously, this meant that she started representing her home state of Montana four years before women secured the right to vote. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of only 50 members of Congress to vote against entering World War I and the sole representative to vote against entering World War II.
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Who was the first woman elected to Congress?
- Hazel Hempel
- Irene Bailey Baker
- Jeannette Rankin
- Veronica Grace Boland
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