As a vote on entering WWI approached, the only woman in Congress faced an agonizing c

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As a vote on entering WWI approached, the only woman in Congress faced an agonizing choice

04-06-2017 08:33 AM

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to be elected to Congress - to any national legislature in the world, in fact - and she had taken her seat on April 2, the day President Woodrow Wilson had asked for a declaration of war against Germany.


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