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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940 .
The first constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage was proposed January 10, 1878, by Senator Aaron Sargent of California. Similar amendments were introduced and referred to the select committee each successive Congress until 1919, when a resolution that was to become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed both houses of Congress. [2]
Jeannette Rankin, elected in 1916 by Montana as the first woman in Congress, was one of fifty members of Congress to vote against the declaration of war. [255] In November 1917, a referendum to enfranchise women in New York – at that time the most populous state in the country – passed by a substantial margin. [256]
The first two were ratified in 1865 and 1868, respectively. ... Women could not vote until the 19th Amendment was implemented. It took a constitutional amendment to change that way of thinking ...
19 th Amendment. Women in the U.S. won the right to vote for the first time in 1920 when Congress ratified the 19th Amendment. The fight for women’s suffrage stretched back to at least 1848 ...
The First Amendment (Amendment I) to the United States Constitution prevents Congress from making laws respecting an establishment of religion; prohibiting the free exercise of religion; or abridging the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of assembly, or the right to petition the government for redress of grievances.
The two women knew at the time that they were the first women to vote in the small town of Hannibal, Missouri. Soon, Marie learned she was also the first woman to vote in the State of Missouri. It was some time later, though, that Marie learned she was in fact the first woman in the country to vote after the passage of the amendment.
Gillibrand makes a last-minute White House push for women’s rights constitutional amendment. ... questions about the president’s authority with the measure more than 50 years after it first ...