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	Jeanette Rankin
		Rankin, who campaigned for universal suffrage, prohibition, child welfare reform, an end to child labour and staying out of the First World War, became the first woman to be elected to the House of Representatives.
		In 1940 Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives on an anti-war programme.
		Rankin was also active in the campaign against the Vietnam War and on 15th May, 1968, at the age of 87, led a women's demonstration against the war in Washington.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USArankin.htm (459 words)

	Jeannette Rankin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jeannette Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and the first female member of Congress.
		Rankin, the daughter of a rancher and a schoolteacher, was born in Grant Creek, Montana.
		Rankin died in Carmel, California at the age of 92 from natural causes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jeanette_Rankin (566 words)

	Jeannette Rankin Foundation -- The Story of Jeannette Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In 1914, Jeannette Rankin led a successful drive for women's voting rights in her native state of Montana and in 1916, running in the Republican party, was elected to the U. House of Representatives.
		Rankin helped draft a constitutional amendment to give women the right to vote, and she led a successful floor debate on it in the House.
		Rankin lost her bid for election to the Senate in 1918 and did not run for Congress again until 1940.
	www.rankinfoundation.org /story.htm (367 words)

	MSN Encarta - Jeanette Rankin
		Rankin, Jeannette (1880-1973), American legislator, born near Missoula, Montana, and educated at the University of Montana and at the School of Philanthropy, New York City.
		She attained prominence as a leader of the woman suffrage movement in Washington and Montana and in 1917 became the first woman member of the U.S. House of Representatives, where she served until 1919 as a representative of Montana.
		Serving again in the House, in 1941 she was the only member of Congress to oppose the declaration of war against Japan; Rankin was thus the only House member to vote against both wars.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551822/Rankin_Jeannette.html (204 words)

	Special for Missoulian Online - The 100 Most Influential Montanans of the Century
		Rankin's passionate proposals taken together with her legislative accomplishments make it hard to imagine that her entire elected career lasted only four years – two terms.
		Rankin's remarks were brief and, characteristically, direct to the point.
		Rankin, of what are you most proud?" She answered without hesitation, "I would liked to have been remembered as the only woman who ever voted to give all women the right to vote."
	www.missoulian.com /specials/100montanans/list/005.html (979 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Women's History - Biographies - Jeannette Rankin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress —; and one of the first women in the world to be elected to a major legislative body — at a time when women could not even vote in most states in the United States.
		Rankin's brother Wellington had urged her to vote for war, but she replied that sentiment in Montana was against U.S. involvement.
		Rankin returned to the national debate in the 1960s when, alarmed by the hostilities in Indochina, she urged women to organize in protest.
	www.gale.com /free_resources/whm/bio/rankin_j.htm (1323 words)

	Helena Independent (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The reception accorded Miss Rankin and the appreciation of her address by the members of the house were the pleasing incidents of the hearing.
		Miss Rankin spoke simply and with an earnestness that was both convincing and proof positive of the sincerity of her convictions.
		At the conclusion of Miss Rankin’s address she was presented by a beautiful token of violets by Representative Binnard as a symbol of appreciation of her talk by the members of the house.
	www.edheritage.org /1910/pridocs/1911rankin.htm (1323 words)

	Famous (Dead) Montanoids, Part 1
		Rankin voted against the United States’ entry into World War I (being one of 56 Congresspersons to vote no), thus, embarking on the crusade that would be the focal point of her life until her death.
		Rankin was the sole member of the House to vote against the war and became the only member of Congress to have voted against America’s entry into both World Wars.
		Rankin briefly reentered public life in the 1960s, lending support to a women’s anti-war coalition, the Jeanette Rankin Brigade, and participating with the Brigade in a march on Washington in protest of the war in Vietnam.
	www.geocities.com /neander97/features/montanoids_1.html (1714 words)

	Jeannette Rankin by Jeannie Woolston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rankin also led a resistance movement against the Vietnam War as well as championing for women’s rights, children, and the poor throughout her life.
		Jeannette Rankin was born on a ranch at Grant Creek, Montana, on June 11, 1880.
		Rankin was elected to the House of Representatives on an anti-war program in January 1941.
	www.peacemakersguide.org /articles/peacemakers/Jeannette-Rankin.htm (782 words)

	The Jeanette Rankin Brigade: Woman Power?
		The Brigade was named for Jeanette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress.
		Rankin voted against US entrance into both WWI and WWII and was a well known feminist and peace activist.
		The brigade was a coalition of women's groups united for a specific purpose: to confront Congress on its opening day, Jan. 15, 1968, with a strong show of female opposition to the Vietnam War.
	www.cwluherstory.com /CWLUArchive/rankin1.html (1090 words)

	Jeanette Rankin
		Jeanette Rankin (1880-1973) was born near Missoula, Montana, attended the public schools there, and graduated from the University of Montana at Missoula.
		Rankin, who had not previously identified herself as a pacifist, announced that she could not vote for war and in joining the fifty-six other Members who voted against the war resolution embarked on the cause that would be at the center of her life until her death more than a half century later.
		She briefly reentered public life in the late 1960s when a coalition of women organized themselves as the Jeannette Rankin Brigade and marched on Washington in protest of the war in Vietnam.
	www.salsa.net /peace/faces/rankin.html (356 words)

	Picture of the Day: November 6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Rankin was elected as a delegate-at-large to the U.S. House of Representatives.
		During her first term in Washington (1917-1919), Rankin strongly supported isolationism--she was one of 49 members of Congress to vote against war with Germany in 1917.
		Rankin served another term in the House of Representatives from 1941 to 1943, where she created a furor as the only legislator to vote against declaring war on Japan after the Pearl Harbor raid.
	www.thehistorynet.com /pod/pod1106 (174 words)

	Jeanette Rankin
		Jeanette Rankin was born on June 11, 1880, near Missoula, Montana.
		She was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican Senate nomination in 1918, engaged in social work for the next three decades, and was re-elected to the House in 1940.
		Rankin supported the cause of peace throughout her life.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/rankin.cfm (193 words)

	Jeanette Rankin
		Jeanette Rankin was born in Missoula, Montana, on 11th June, 1880.
		Rankin was also active in the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the National Council for the Prevention of War.
		The Jeanette Rankin Foundation is still helping women improve their lives.
	www.rootsweb.com /~gaoconee/Histories/Bios/rankin.htm (541 words)

	National Women's Hall of Fame - Women of the Hall
		Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress, serving two separate terms.
		Rankin, a lifelong Montana resident, was active in the woman suffrage movement in the West, and campaigned for election to Congress after her state gave women the right to vote.
		She was, at age 86, a proud marcher in the Jeannette Rankin Brigade in the March on Washington to oppose the Vietnam War.
	www.greatwomen.org /women.php?action=viewone&id=121 (289 words)

	Environmental Studies - The University of Montana
		Jeanette Rankin Hall is named for Jeannette Rankin, the UM grad (1902) who became the first woman elected to Congress.
		Rankin was greeting a crowd of admirers en route to her swearing in on April 2, 1917.
		Rankin cast one of the few votes against that declaration and lost her seat at the next election.
	www.umt.edu /evst/about_setting.htm (681 words)

	Daily Celebrations ~ Jeanette Rankin, Win a War ~ May 14 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
		Courageous pacifist and suffragist Jeannette Pickering Rankin (1880-1973) was born in Missoula, Montana.
		She was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress in 1916 and the only member to vote against declaring war on Japan in 1941 after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
		She re-entered public life in January 1968 when at the age of 87 she led the Jeanette Rankin Brigade of over 5,000 women in a Washington demonstration against the Vietnam War.
	www.dailycelebrations.com /051400.htm (197 words)

	This Day in History
		Rankin was a committed pacifist, and she cared little about the damage her beliefs caused her political career.
		Rankin, however, believed that Roosevelt deliberately provoked the Japanese to attack because he wanted to bring the U.S. into the European war against Germany; she was determined not to cooperate with the president's plan.
		Rankin was vilified in the press, accused of disloyalty, and called "Japanette Rankin," among other impolite names.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=oldwest&month=10272964&day=10272973 (438 words)

	Satya Dec01-Jan02: The Courage to Vote No by Claudette Silver
		According to Rankin, “I knew that we were asked to vote for a commercial war, that none of the idealistic hopes would be carried out, and I was aware of the falseness of much of the propaganda.”
		Rankin’s dedication to democracy and social justice led her to decades of work in Washington, DC.
		Rankin, although a committed pacifist, agreed to wait until the last minute to vote on the declaration of WWI.
	www.satyamag.com /dec01/silver.html (887 words)

	U.S. Capitol Historical Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The most recent statue is of Congresswoman Jeanette Rankin (R-MT), located in the Hall of Columns.
		Rankin was the first woman elected to the House of Representatives in 1917, two years before women gained the right to vote.
		In the Hall of Capitols, several nurses are shown attending Civil War casualties in the Capitol, while in Great Experiment Hall, paintings portray Jeanette Rankin working as a pacifist and Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt participating in a women's suffrage parade.
	www.uschs.org /04_history/subs_articles/04e_07.html (1090 words)

	As The Island Floats
		Jeanette Rankin was a leader in the suffrage movement.
		Jeanette Rankin chose to vote her convictions and four days after taking office voted against Wold War I. She said when she cast her vote, " I want to stand by my country but I cannot vote for war." Although many of her fellow suffragists agreed with her position, they were upset with her.
		Rankin was defeated when she sought reelection because of that vote.
	www.astheislandfloats.com (2233 words)

	Montana: The Magazine of Western History: Jeanette Rankin, America's Conscience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The book is organized chronologically-a style that works well for understanding Rankin's early life, what influenced her thinking, and the historical context of national and world events- but it leans heavily on Rankin's earlier years.
		This raises the larger question of Rankin's attitudes toward racial problems, an issue which Smith gives only scant attention, focusing instead on Rankin's friendships with African-American neighbors in Georgia, where she lived part of the time in her retirement.
		Likewise, Rankin died in May 1973, but due to a confusing final two pages, readers do not know where she died and are given no information about her funeral, obituaries, or her family's and friends' reactions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3951/is_200304/ai_n9180913 (545 words)

	FOR- Fellowship Magazine - Nonviolence in the Arena
		In a singular act of courage, a lone congresswoman, Barbara Lee of California, cast the one dissenting vote in a resolution passed 420-1 in the House and 98-0 in the Senate granting President George W. Bush advance authority to use "all necessary and appropriate force" against anyone associated with the attacks of September 11.
		But while Rankin was a committed pacifist, Lee claims she is "not a person who's an absolutist on anything." "I believe in peace.
		In 1985, eighteen years after Rankin, at the age of eighty-eight, led a coalition of 5,000 women known as the Jeannette Rankin Brigade to petition the US Congress to end the war in Vietnam, in 1985 a bronze statue of her was placed in the United States Capitol Building.
	www.forusa.org /fellowship/nov-dec_01/nv_in_arena.html (1536 words)

	GOP.com \| Republican National Committee :: About - The Republican Party - GOP History
		When the 19th Amendment finally was added to the Constitution, 26 of 36 state legislatures that had voted to ratify it were under Republican control.
		The first woman elected to Congress was a Republican, Jeanette Rankin from Montana in 1917.
		In 1917, Jeannette Rankin, a Montana Republican, became the first woman to serve in the House.
	www.gop.com /About/AboutRead.aspx?AboutType=3 (845 words)

	Welcome to Another Voice From Oconee County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Miss Rankin has always been a fascinating subject to me because of her place in history as the first Woman in Congress and the only vote recorded against World War II when President Roosevelt made his “day of infamy” speech after December 7, 1941.
		He met with Miss Rankin when she was in Washington heading up the ‘Jeannette Rankin Brigade” in the late 1960’s lobbying against the Vietnam War.
		While Miss Rankin’s bequest was a limited amount in today’s dollars, her life was one of courage and energy and distinction.
	www.avoc.info /info/article.php?article=474 (969 words)

	Rankin, Texas - links to government resources and information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Jerry Lewis, Jr., of Rankin, Texas, was the 35 millionth man to register since reinstatement of the requirement in 1980.
		Jerry Lewis, Jr., of Rankin, Texas, the 35 millionth man to register since the requirement was reinstated by the President in 1980, agreed to help remind...
		Rankin Field was founded by flight instructor `Tex' Rankin, a native of the State of Texas.
	www.us-news-watch.com /Texas/Rankin.html (633 words)

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