Jeannette Rankin and Edith Green
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in the US congress.
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First women president for INC was Annie Basant but elected women president was Sarojini Naidu
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
Jeannette Rankin--Republican and Edith Green--Representative
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It was Shirley Chisholm,elected to the u.s congress in 1968.She was very famous due her work for minority,women's,and peace issues
women were granted the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920. However, the first woman, Jeannette Rankin, was elected to Congress in 1916, before women had the right to vote. Regarding non-whites, the first African American, Hiram Rhodes Revels, was elected to Congress in 1870, during the Reconstruction era. Since then, women and non-whites have continued to be eligible and serve as members of Congress.
He was elected to congress from Illinois.
The first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress was Jeannette Rankin of Montana. She was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916, four years before the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote.
Donna Edwards
You are asking about Jeannette Rankin of Montana. She was a Republican, and she was elected to Congress before women even had the right to vote in presidential elections. In a handful of states, however, women had been given the right to vote for representatives to Congress. Montana was one of the states that had given women this right, and that's how Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives in November 1916, before all US women got suffrage in 1920.