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Jeannette Rankin

1880 - 1973

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Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana. Each of Rankin's congressional terms coincided with the initiation of U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jeannette Rankin has received more than 1,603,463 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jeannette Rankin is the 11,497th most popular politician (down from 10,830th in 2019), the 4,240th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,161st in 2019) and the 285th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jeannette Rankin ranks 11,497 out of 19,576. Before her are Phraya Phahonphonphayuhasena, Johannes van den Bosch, Ioannis Alevras, John Albert II, Sergei Stanishev, and Acfred, Duke of Aquitaine. After her are Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu, Louis Lansana Beavogui, Eric IV, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Prince Moritz of Saxe-Altenburg, Maximilian Ulysses Browne, and Aleksandar Malinov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Jeannette Rankin ranks 117. Before her are Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Adrian Carton de Wiart, Abdullah bin Jassim Al Thani, Walter Hohmann, and Samuel Jones. After her are Walter Short, Eugen Slutsky, Richard Oswald, Dmitry Karbyshev, Harry Baur, and Carl Schuricht. Among people deceased in 1973, Jeannette Rankin ranks 142. Before her are Alexander Mosolov, José Alfredo Jiménez, Aleksandr Ptushko, Carmine Gallone, Eleazar López Contreras, and Amleto Giovanni Cicognani. After her are Rafael Franco, Nobuko Yoshiya, Paavo Talvela, Willy Fritsch, István Kertész, and Gustaf Molander.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeannette Rankin ranks 4,240 out of 20,380. Before her are Jim Davis (1945), Roy Buchanan (1939), Freddie Hubbard (1938), Jesse Jane (1980), Aldo Leopold (1887), and Imogen Cunningham (1883). After her are Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Edward Furlong (1977), Linda Fiorentino (1958), Gary Coleman (1968), Pat Benatar (1953), and Sarah Goodridge (1788).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jeannette Rankin ranks 285. Before her are George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Lindsey Graham (1955), Huey Long (1893), Harry Hopkins (1890), and Newt Gingrich (1943). After her are Sanford B. Dole (1844), Schuyler Colfax (1823), Lawrence Eagleburger (1930), Moses Finley (1912), W. Averell Harriman (1891), and Kevin McCarthy (1965).

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