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Pages in category "20th-century American women politicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,194 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The first woman to be elected to Congress was Montana's Jeannette Rankin, a Republican, in the 1916 House elections; [2] notably, this occurred before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which prohibits the federal government or any state from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex. [3]
Pages in category "20th-century women politicians" The following 165 pages are in this category, out of 165 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Laura Clay and Cora Wilson Stewart received one vote apiece at the 1920 Democratic National Convention on the 33rd and 36th ballots, respectively. They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party.
Pages in category "American women in politics" The following 66 pages are in this category, out of 66 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
This is a non-diffusing parent category of Category:20th-century African-American politicians and Category:20th-century Native American politicians and Category:20th-century American women politicians The contents of these subcategories can also be found within this category, or in diffusing subcategories of it.
Category: Lists of women politicians in the United States. 1 language.
It includes a list of all women who have served in the Senate, a list of current female senators, and a list of states represented by women in the Senate. The first female U.S. senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton , represented Georgia for a single day in 1922, and the first woman elected to the Senate, Hattie Caraway , was elected from Arkansas in ...