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She was active in the National Womens suffrage organization. She helped women get the right to vote not only in montana but a couple of states west of mississippi. And she runs, in 1916, she is elected to one of two districts. Part of her platform is that she is a pacifist or she does one into the house on april 2, 1917. And the house has come in special session, externally session because the president that night, woodrow wilson, delivers a message to Congress Asking for a declaration of war against germany. The u. S. Entry into world war i. Rankin, when that vote is held, is one of a group of 50 members who votes against u. S. Intervention in world war i. She served a term in the house. She was on the womens suffrage committee. She was on the public lands committee, which was an important assignment for a woman from montana, with so much of the land being held by the federal government. She serves only a term in the house. She tries to run for senate from montana. She does not get th

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