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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Montana RANKIN, Jeannette(1880—1973)RANKIN, Jeannette, a Representative from Montana; born near Missoula, Missoula County, Mont., June 11, 1880; attended the public schools, and was graduated from the University of Montana at Missoula in 1902; student at the School of Philanthropy, New York City in 1908 and 1909; social worker in Seattle, Wash., in 1909; engaged in promoting the cause of woman suffrage in the State of Washington in 1910, in California in 1911, and in Montana 1912-1914; visited New Zealand in 1915 and worked as a seamstress in order to gain personal knowledge of social conditions; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1919); was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives; did not seek renomination in 1918, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for Senator; was also an unsuccessful candidate on an independent ticket for election to the United States Senate; engaged in social work; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1943); was not a candidate for renomination in 1942 to the Seventy-eighth Congress; resumed lecturing and ranching; member, National Consumers League; field worker, Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom; member, National Council for Prevention of War; remained leader and lobbyist for peace and women’s rights until her death in Carmel, Calif., May 18, 1973; cremated; ashes scattered on ocean, Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif. Alonso, Harriet Hyman. “Jeannette Rankin and the Women’s Peace Union.” Montana, The Magazine of Western History 39 (Spring 1989): 34-49. ———. “‘To Make War Legally Impossible’: A Study of The Women’s Peace Union, 1921-1942.” Ph.D. diss., State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1986. Amaro, Charlotte A. “Across Contexts and Through Time: Jeannette Rankin, Feminine Style, and an Ethic of Care.” Ph.D. diss., Wayne State University, 2000. Block, Judy Rachel. The First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin. Illustrated by Terry Kovalcik. New York: C.P.I., 1978. Board, John C. “Jeannette Rankin: The Lady from Montana.” Montana, The Magazine of Western History 17 (July 1967): 2-17. ———. “The Lady from Montana: Jeannette Rankin.” M.A. Thesis, University of Wyoming, 1964. Bonner, Helen Louise Ward. “The Jeannette Rankin Story.” Ph.D. diss., Ohio University, 1982. Davidson, Sue. A Heart in Politics: Jeannette Rankin and Patsy T. Mink. Seattle: Seal Press, 1994. Dictionary of American Biography. New York: C. Scribner’s Sons, 1943. Giles, Kevin S. Flight of the Dove: The Story of Jeannette Rankin. Beaverton, OR: Touchstone Press, 1980. Hardaway, Roger D. “Jeannette Rankin: The Early Years.” North Dakota Quarterly 48 (Winter 1980): 62-68. Harris, Ted Carlton. “Jeannette Rankin: Suffragist, First Woman Elected to Congress, and Pacifist.” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Georgia, 1972. ———. “Jeannette Rankin, Warring Pacifist.” Master’s Thesis, University of Georgia, 1969. “Jeannette Rankin” in Women in Congress, 1917-1990. Prepared under the direction of the Commission on the Bicentenary by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1991. Josephson, Hannah Geffen. Jeannette Rankin, First Lady in Congress: A Biography. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974. Schaffer, Ronald. “Jeannette Rankin, Progressive Isolationist.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Princeton University, 1959. Smith, Norma. Jeannette Rankin, America’s Conscience . Helena, Mo.: Montana Historical Society Press, 2002. U.S. Congress. Senate. Acceptance and Dedication of the Statue of Jeannette Rankin, Presented by the State of Montana: Proceedings in the Rotunda, United States Capitol, Wednesday, May 1, 1985. 99th Congress. 2nd session. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1987. White, Florence Meiman. First Woman in Congress: Jeannette Rankin. New York: J. Messner, 1980. Wilson, Joan Hoff. “‘Peace is a woman’s job ....’: Jeannette Rankin and American Foreign Policy: Her Lifework as a Pacifist.” Montana, The Magazine of Western History 30 (January 1980): 29-41; (April 1980): 38-53. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present |
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