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May 18, 1973 (92 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
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Celebrities born on June 11
Born in 1880
Born in Missoula, Montana
Gemini named Jeannette
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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Each of Rankin's Congressional terms coincided with initiation of U.S. military intervention in the two World Wars. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members who opposed the declaration of war on Germany in 1917. In 1941, she was the only member of Congress to vote against the declaration of war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor. A suffragist during the Progressive Era, Rankin organized and lobbied for legislation enfranchising women in several states including Montana, New York, and North Dakota. While in Congress, she introduced legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting unrestricted voting rights to women nationwide.
BornJeannette Pickering Rankin, June 11, 1880, Missoula County, Montana Territory, U.S.
DiedMay 18, 1973, Carmel, California, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationUniversity of Montana, Columbia University, University of Washington
Preceded byJacob Thorkelson
Succeeded byMike Mansfield

About Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin

Politician Jeannette Rankin was born in Missoula, Montana, United States on June 11, 1880. She dies at the age of 92, on May 18, 1973.

Suffragette who became the first woman to serve in Congress when she was elected to the House of Representatives in 1916. In 1917, she was one of the few members of Congress who voted against the United States joining the First World War.

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Jeannette Rankin before becoming famous

Jeannette Rankin was born in the Zodiac sign Gemini (The Twins), and 1880 is also the year of Dragon (龍) in the Chinese Zodiac.

She was a proponent of women's suffrage in Washington state, where her efforts were rewarded with a vote legalizing women to vote in 1911, and then in Montana in 1914.

Achievement of Jeannette Rankin

Her reputation as a social warrior helped her win a seat in the House of Representatives in 1916, where she pushed to enact the Nineteenth Amendment, which guaranteed women the right to vote.

Jeannette Rankin's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Rankin

She was one of seven children born to a rancher father and a schoolteacher mother in Missoula, Montana.

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She voted against the declaration of war because she believed President US President Franklin D. Roosevelt had instigated the conflict with the Japanese.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945) (US President)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

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