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Jeannette Rankin, a US representative from Montana, was the first woman to serve in the US Congress, elected in 1916. This was three years before the 19th Amendment guaranteed women the right to vote in the US. But Montana had already enacted women's suffrage laws in 1914, in part due to the efforts of women including Rankin.
Rankin won a second time (in a different district) in 1940. A staunch pacifist, Rankin remains the only woman to have everrepresented Montana in Congress.
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