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TIL Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first female elected to Congress (1916). A suffragist who helped get the 19th Amendment passed, was a staunch pacifist, opposing WW1, WW2, and was out marching in protest against Vietnam when she was 61 years old. A badass.

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