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Jeannette Rankin
Jeannette Pickering Rankin was born on June 11, 1880. Her father, John Rankin, was a rancher and lumber merchant and her mother, Olive Pickering, a former schoolteacher.

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in the U.S Congress. A Republican, she was elected statewide in 1916 and again in 1940. She was voted against the entry of the United States into both World War 1 and ll.

She lost her seat in Congress (twice, first in 1917, and 2nd in 1941) because she request for peaceful solutions "problems," and it took her to India seven times to study the tactics of Mahatma Gandhi. ( Like my first PEACE HERO, by Albert Einstein. In 1967, Jeannette said, "it is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam and if 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, even if it meant going to jail. She would then led a protest in DC in 1968 with thousands of women. Unfortunately, after the war was over millions of people would be slaughtered.

“There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.”

 Jeannette Rankin