Jeannette Rankin Research Paper

Jeannette Rankin was born near Missoula, Montana on June 11, 1880. She successfully fought for a woman's right to vote in Washington State and Montana and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. The first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress, during her two separate terms Rankin helped pass the 19th Amendment and was the only Congressperson to vote against both WWI and WWII. She died in 1973. Jeannette Rankins was a vigorous feminist , a life time pacifist and a reformer for social and electoral reforms.
Rankin attended Montana State University at Missoula and graduated in 1902 with a bachelor of science degree in biology. She worked as a schoolteacher, and seamstress and studied furniture design, looking for some work to which she could commit herself. On a long trip to Boston in 1904 to visit with her brother at Harvard and with
The war resolution measure was passed by Congress 374 to 50. During the war, she fought for the rights of women working in the war effort. Rankin also created women's rights legislation and helped pass the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Congress, granting women the right to vote.After her two-year term ended in 1919, Jeannette Rankin focused much of her energies on her pacifism and social welfare. In 1924 she bought a small farm in Georgia that had no electricity or plumbing and founded the pacifist organization, The Georgia Peace Society. From 1929 to 1939 she was a lobbyist and speaker for the National Council for the Prevention of War and later became an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
Jeannette Rankin made a return to politics in 1939. Running for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, she won the election in part based on her antiwar position. Even the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, could not dissuade Rankin from her pacifist stance and she voted against entering the