Actually who you thought: Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin was the very first women elected to the US House of Representatives in 1916.
Jeannette Rankin was the first female member of Congress, elected in 1916 and in 1940.
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Jeanette Rankin
Actually who you thought: Jeannette Rankin
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.
Jeannette Rankin was elected to the House of Representative from the state of Montana in 1916.
Joseph Hayne rainey was the first African American elected to US House of Representatives, sworn in on December 12, 1870. He served 4 consecutive terms. Jefferson Long became the second African American elected to the US House of Representatives in 1870. He represented Georgia. He served three months as a US Representative.
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.
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.
Agnes Macphail was the first women to be elected to the House of Commons in Canada. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in Ontario
Yes, a senator may be called a congressman/woman based on the fact he or she is part of the body called the congress. However, traditionally those elected to the senate are called senators and those elected to the House of Representatives are referred to as congressmen/women.
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The House of Representatives is not a "who." (It is not one person.) It is a "what"-- it can refer to a building in Washington DC, and it can also be the name for the group of men and women who have been elected to serve as representatives. The House of Representatives is a part of the Legislative Branch of Congress; there is the Senate (100 senators), and there is the House of Representatives (435 representatives), and they make the laws. They are part of the federal government. In the United States, voters elect people to represent them in the government. The men and women who are sent to congress to be Representatives will serve a term of two years and then they can run for re-election. They do their work in a very historical building which is sometimes just called "The House"-- for example: The House will vote on the budget in two weeks.
The elected representatives can be called council women, council men or council persons. They can also be referred to as council representatives.