Jeannette Rankin.
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in the US congress.
Jeanette Rankin was elected by the state of Montana and was the first woman elected to Congress.
The first woman elected to the US Congress.
She was the first African American woman in the US congress
she was the first African American congress woman in us history
Shirley Anita Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress in 1968.
The US House of Representatives.
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress in 1916
The first black woman mp in Britain was Diane Abbott
Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress in 1916
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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