Jeanette Rankin
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
If you are asking about the United States, it was Jeannette Rankin. She was from Montana, where women had already been given the right to vote. A Republican, she was elected in 1916, and took her seat in the House of Representatives in 1917.
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That was Carol Mosely Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. She won the senatorial election in November 1992 and became the first African-American woman elected to the United States Senate. (There had already been a black woman elected to the House of Representatives-- Shirley Chisholm of New York, who was elected in 1968.)
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Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
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If you are asking about the United States, it was Jeannette Rankin. She was from Montana, where women had already been given the right to vote. A Republican, she was elected in 1916, and took her seat in the House of Representatives in 1917.
Shirley Chisholm was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
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U. S. Senators and Representatives are elected by direct public vote. Each Senator is elected by all the voters of the state he/she represents, and each Representative is elected by the voters of his/her congressional district within the state. A Senator's term is six years; the term of a Representative is two years. There are no term limits for U. S. Senators and Representatives. Representatives are always elected on the day after the first Monday of November of even-numbered years (unless a special election is needed to fill a vacant seat).
In 1916, Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, was the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Actually who you thought: Jeannette Rankin
She was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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