{"id":17225,"date":"2015-11-07T10:17:24","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2015-11-07T10:17:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:17:24","slug":"honor-jeannette-rankin-today-november-7-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/07\/honor-jeannette-rankin-today-november-7-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Jeannette Rankin Today, November 7, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jeannette Rankin cph.3b13863.jpg\" height=\"277\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/c\/ca\/Jeannette_Rankin_cph.3b13863.jpg\/220px-Jeannette_Rankin_cph.3b13863.jpg\" width=\"220\" \/>According to Sen. Jon Tester, &quot;On Tuesday, November 7, 1916, Montanans elected Jeannette Rankin to the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman ever elected to Congress. Montanans elected her four years before all women in America even had the right to vote.&quot;<br \/>\n\tAccording to Wiki:<br \/>\n\t&quot;Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 &ndash; May 18, 1973) became the first woman to hold a high government office in the United States when in 1916 she was elected to the United States Congress from the state of Montana.[2] After winning her House seat in 1916 she said, &#8220;I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won&rsquo;t be the last.&#8221;[3] She also was elected in 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Rankin&#039;s two terms in Congress coincided with U.S. entry into both World Wars. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 56 members of Congress (including 50 in the House) who voted against entry into World War I in 1917, and the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.[3][4]&quot;<br \/>\n\tMore can be read at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeannette_Rankin\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeannette_Rankin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Sen. Jon Tester, &quot;On Tuesday, November 7, 1916, Montanans elected Jeannette Rankin to the U.S. House of Representatives. She was the first woman ever elected to Congress. Montanans elected her four years before all women in America even had the right to vote.&quot; According to Wiki: &quot;Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 &ndash; <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/07\/honor-jeannette-rankin-today-november-7-2015\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}