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The First Woman In Congress

The Wall Street Journal

November 29, 2025

Winning the Earthquake

- By Lorissa Rinehart

THE FIRST WOMAN to be elected to Congress is almost forgotten today outside of her home state of Montana. Jeannette Rankin arrived on Capitol Hill as a Republican in 1917, at the age of 36, three years before women got the right to vote in federal

This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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