from NPR this morning

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On the way in to work this morning, I was reminded of Jeanette Rankin. She was one gutsy lady.

Jeannette Rankin’s life was filled with extraordinary achievements: she was the first woman elected to Congress, one of the few suffragists elected to Congress, and the only Member of Congress to vote against U.S. participation in both World War I and World War II. “I may be the first woman member of Congress,” she observed upon her election in 1916. “But I won’t be the last.” History, Art, & Archives, United States House of Representitives