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=__Jeanette Rankin__= __"I want to stand by my country, but I cannot vote for war. I vote No."__ 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 that time wemon was not alowed to vote in most states. Rankin was born near Missoula, Montana, on June 11, 1880, the oldest of seven children. Her father, John Rankin, was a successful rancher and lumber merchant and her mother, Olive Pickering Rankin, was a schoolteacher. After attending public schools in Missoula, she graduated from the University of Montana in 1902 with a degree in biology. She briefly taught in country schools before serving an apprenticeship as a seamstress and supporting herself by taking in sewing. When Rankin's father died in 1904 she assumed responsibility for her five sisters and her brother Wellington, with whom she became particularly close and who later served as her political adviser. When the women's suffrage movement was gaining momentum throughout the country, and Rankin joined the state suffrage organization. For five years she actively campaigned for the cause in Washington, California, Ohio, and Montana. Eventually she served as legislative secretary of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and her efforts in Montana resulted in women winning the right to vote in 1914.
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