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The one person who voted against war with Japan was Montana Republican Jeannette Rankin. She is sometimes said to have stated the she, as a woman, could not go to war and refused to send anyone else. Rankin, who was a pacifist, also voted against war with Germany in 1917.

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A committed pacifist, Jeannette Rankin was the only representative to vote 'no' in the House's 1941 vote of 388 to 1 for a declaration of war against Japan the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the representative from Montana, she also voted against going to war in 1917.

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