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http://ezproxy.drew.edu/login?url= http://www.credoreference.com/vol/584]The first woman was elected to the House of Representatives before American women received the vote. Jeanette Rankin of Colorado arrived in Congress in 1917, in time to vote against entering World War I: “As a woman, I can't go to war, and I refuse to send anyone else.” That vote cost her the next election, but she came back! |
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