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Long before women got the right to vote in national elections, some states gave them the vote. Montana was one of those states, and that is how Jeannette Rankin was elected in 1916. She was the first woman elected to congress, and as the newspapers reported, the men were not quite sure how to act around a female politician, since there had been so few of them up to this time.

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