TATTERED ENVELOPE OWNED BY & ADDRESSED TO 1ST US CONGRESSWOMAN JEANNETTE RANKIN - $200 - (Athens, GA)
RARE PEACE / ANTI-WAR, WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVENENT, POLITICAL ITEM. APPROX. 10" X 10" TATTERED ENVELOPE ADDRESSED TO AND OWNED BY MISS JEANNETTE RANKIN, 1ST U.S. CONGRESSWOMAN, BOUGHT AT ESTATE SALE IN WATKINSVILLE, GEORGIA, WHERE SHE LIVED FOR MANY YEARS. Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) became the first woman to hold a high government office in the United States when she won election to the United States Congress, in 1916 from the state of Montana. After winning her House seat in 1916 she said, "I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last." She also was elected in 1940. Rankin'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 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.
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