Jeannette Rankin, American Politician and Pacifist
Jeannette Rankin protests increase in nation's armed forces. The first woman member of Congress, told the Naval Affairs Committee for the House today that there is much technical opinion within the Navy Department against the fortification of Guam as there is for it', and that the reason that the committee had not heard such opinions is because announcements of policy come only from the top. Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 - May 18, 1973) was an American politician, women's rights advocate, and the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the House of Representatives from Montana in 1916, and again in 1940. Each of Rankin's Congressional terms coincided with initiation of military intervention in each of the two world wars. A lifelong pacifist and a supporter of non-interventionism, she was one of 50 House members, along with six Senators, who opposed the war declaration of 1917, and the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. She championed the causes of women's rights and civil rights throughout a career that spanned more than six decades. She never married and died in 1973 at the age of 92. Harris & Ewing, February 7, 1939.
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