Jeannette Rankin

Rankin, Jeannette (1880–1973), pacifist, feminist, social reformer, and first woman elected to the U.S. Congress. She became Republican Congress-woman at large for Montana in 1917–19 and returned to the House in 1941, when she cast the only vote against entering World War II. In the 1960s she reemerged as a leader of the campaign against the war in Vietnam.