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Born in Montana in 1880, Jeannette Rankin became a force within the fight for women's suffrage in the early 1900s. As a young person, Rankin helped organize the New York Woman Suffrage Party. Later she returned to her home state to lead the Montana Women's Suffrage Association—and to serve as the field secretary for National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). In 1914, she and other suffragists celebrated when Montana's legislature voted to grant women full voting rights in the state.



After the victory in Montana, Rankin chose to continue her work in Washington, DC. In 1916, she campaigned for and won one of Montana's two at-large seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. When Rankin sworn into office the spring of 1917, she became the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.



In Congress, Rankin was the ranking Republican member of the House’s newly formed Woman Suffrage Committee, and she led efforts to bring a federal women's suffrage amendment—what would eventually become the 19th Amendment—to the House floor. In 1918, Rankin ran and lost a race for the Senate, in part because of her vote against U.S. entry into World War I. As a result, when the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920, there were no women serving in Congress.



100 years later, 131 of the 541 senators, representatives, and delegates in the United States are women. How much has changed since Rankin first took her seat in the House? What is the legacy of the 19th Amendment today? These are the questions that the women of the U.S. Senate discuss in our new digital collection, “Senators on Suffrage.” Follow the link in our bio to explore the collection: https://s.si.edu/senators-on-suffrage

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