Jeanette Rankin.

• Author: La Follette, Belle Case
• Position: 1916 - Brief article

The is certainly impelling fitness fact that the first woman elected to Congress comes out of the great, free, progressive West, where the women of the United States were first given the vote. When Montana was placed on the map as an equal suffrage state, a large share of the credit was given to Miss Rankin, whose ability as a campaign speaker and genius for organization had already made for her a national reputation as a...