The Life of Jeannette Rankin and How She Helped the Woman’s Suffrage Movement
Jeannette Rankin accomplished many things while she was alive.
She played a big part in the woman’s suffrage movement, she was the first women to be elected to congress, and many other extravagant things.
Jeannette Rankin was born on
June 11th 1880, in Missoula, Montana.
Rankin was the oldest of 7 children to
John Rankin and Olive Pickering.
Rankin Graduated from Montana State
University in 1902 with a bachelor’s degree in biology, and later went to the
New York School of Philanthropy to Study social work.
Before Rankin was a congresswoman, she was a teacher, seamstress, and a social worker all at different times.
While she was a social…show more content… When congress voted to enter WWI, she was one in 56 of congress that voted against it. During her term she also helped pass the 19th amendment.
Before Rankin helped establish the 19th
Amendment, there were many things that
Women of that time couldn’t do. For
Example women weren’t allowed to own
Property, and if they were married there were
Even more things they couldn’t do. If they had
A job their wages were collected by their husbands
And if they had children and the couple were
To have a divorce then the father would have
Complete control of where the children went
Between Rankin’s first and second term, she split her time between pacifism and social welfare. In 1928 she founded the
Georgia Peace Society after purchasing a farm in that state. Later Rankin became the leading lobbyist and speaker for the National
Council for the Prevention of War from
1929-1939.
It was the looming war crisis in 1940 that brought Rankin back to congress.
During her second term from 1941- 1942, it was the beginning of WWII. When congress voted to enter WWII after Pearl Harbor, Rankin was the only person to vote against entering the