Jeannette Rankin, America's Conscience

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Montana Historical Society, 2002 - Biography & Autobiography - 233 pages
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Social worker, suffragist, first woman elected to the United States Congress, and a lifelong peace activist, Jeannette Rankin is often remembered as the woman who voted "No" to United States involvement in both world wars. Rankin's determined voice for change shines in this biography, written by her friend, Norma Smith.
 

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Very readable, even somewhat humorous, biography of the world's least-known suffragist.

Contents

FOREWORD by Joan Hoff
1
INTRODUCTION by Kathryn Anderson
5
PREFACE
23
ONE Determined Woman
25
Two A Pioneer Family
29
THREE Waiting for Life to Come to
41
FOUR A Career in the Suffrage Movement
57
FIVE Suffrage Success in Montana
75
Suffragist
115
NINE Defeated Politician
127
TEN Miss Rankin Former Congresswoman
143
ELEVEN Peace Activist
157
Pacifist
171
THIRTEEN Retirement
191
FOURTEEN Woman on Horseback
207
ESSAY ON SOURCES
224

SIX Jeannette Rankin for Congress
91
Pacifist
105

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