Thread by @DenbrotS

#IDedicateThisWeekTo Jeannette Pickering Rankin, American politician &women's rights advocate, the 1st woman to hold federal office in the U.S.
Elected to the U.S. House of Reps as a Republican from MT in 1916 &again in 1940. She is still the only woman ever elected from Montana.

I want to be remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.
Jeanette Rankin

Not only was Jeannette the 1st woman to hold a seat in Congress but, she was elected for this position 4 yrs before women nationally had the right to vote.

We’re half the people; we should be half the Congress.

Jeanette Rankin

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Jeanette Rankin

Jeanette Rankin Remembered in Video
history.house.gov/Exhibitions-an…

Men are not killed because they get mad at each other. They're killed because one of them has a gun in any dispute.

Jeanette Rankin