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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 1,487,292 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Jeannette Rankin is the 10,860th most popular politician (down from 10,858th in 2019), the 4,172nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,599th in 2019) and the 258th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Jeannette Rankin ranks 10,860 out of 15,577. Before her are Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Sourou-Migan Apithy, Wang Yang, Jaan Tõnisson, Mikuláš Dzurinda, and Ahhotep II. After her are Louis-Mathieu Molé, Surendranath Banerjee, Odilo, Duke of Bavaria, Anatolijs Gorbunovs, Mahmoud Sami el-Baroudi, and C. R. Swart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Jeannette Rankin ranks 115. Before her are Christabel Pankhurst, Fritz Bleyl, Hans Hofmann, Lytton Strachey, Carl Schuricht, and W. C. Fields. After her are Frigyes Riesz, Tom Mix, Richard Oswald, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Azim Azimzade, and Joseph Grew. Among people deceased in 1973, Jeannette Rankin ranks 132. Before her are Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Carmine Gallone, Paavo Talvela, Nikolay Kamov, Winthrop Rockefeller, and Eleazar López Contreras. After her are Abd al-Rahman al-Bazzaz, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Frances Marion, István Kertész, and Nancy Mitford.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jeannette Rankin ranks 4,172 out of 18,182. Before her are W. C. Fields (1880), Dee Snider (1955), William Thurston (1946), Ian Ziering (1964), Tom Brady (1977), and Michael Chiklis (1963). After her are Lucretia Mott (1793), Bill Goldberg (1966), Albert Ayler (1936), Eddie Slovik (1920), Anna Elizabeth Klumpke (1856), and Ralph Boston (1939).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Jeannette Rankin ranks 258. Before her are Schuyler Colfax (1823), John Lewis (1940), Lori Lightfoot (1962), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Augustine Washington (1694), and Charles Evans Hughes (1862). After her are Moses Finley (1912), Frank Carlucci (1930), Horace Greeley (1811), Pat Buchanan (1938), Robert Lansing (1864), and Osceola (1804).

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