In his address to Congress that day, Wilson lamented it is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war. Four days later, Congress obliged and However, he showed great talent for languages and entered the University of By the time it ended six weeks later, 62 people were dead.
Another 32 survived serious illness. Ekaterinburg, as the town was known in Soviet times, also suffered livestock Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.
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She was assigned to the Committee on Public Lands, which was concerned with western issues. When a mine disaster in Butte resulted in a massive protest strike by miners over their working conditions, violence soon broke out. Responding to pleas from more-moderate miner unions, Rankin unsuccessfully sought help from the Wilson administration through legislation and through her personal intervention in the crisis. These efforts failed as the mining companies refused to meet with either her or the miners.
They own the press. Charges that Republicans were bribing her to withdraw compelled her to undertake what she knew was an impossible task—running in the general election on a third-party ticket. Afterwards, Rankin divided her time between pacifism and social welfare. In , she founded the Georgia Peace Society after purchasing a farm in that state. Rankin became the leading lobbyist and speaker for the National Council for the Prevention of War from to She also remained active in advocating social welfare programs.
It was the looming war crisis in that brought Rankin back to Congress. She returned to Montana with her eye on the western House district held by first-term Republican Representative Jacob Thorkelson—an outspoken anti-Semite. When the Republican primary results were in, Rankin defeated three candidates, including the incumbent.
Rankin went into the race confident that the mining industry no longer carried the hefty political influence she faced earlier. LaFollette, Jr. House of Representatives. Although it was a very close race, she won the election, becoming the first woman to serve in Congress. This accomplishment is even more miraculous, considering this was a time when many women still did not have the right to vote. In , Rankin proposed the formation of a Committee on Woman Suffrage, of which she was appointed leader.
In , she addressed the House Floor after the committee issued a report for a constitutional amendment on the women's right to vote:. The war resolution measure was passed by Congress to During the war, she fought for the rights of women working in the war effort. Rankin also created women's rights legislation and helped pass the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.
Congress, granting women the right to vote. After her two-year term ended in , Rankin focused much of her energy on her pacifism and social welfare.
In , she bought a small farm in Georgia that had no electricity or plumbing and founded the pacifist organization, The Georgia Peace Society. Rankin made a return to politics in Running for a seat in the U. Still others approached her on the floor, trying to convince her to either vote for the war or abstain altogether.
As reporters and Members crowded around her on the floor, Rankin huddled in a phonebooth in the Republican cloakroom before police officers escorted her to her office. For the remainder of the term, Rankin limited herself to issues of wartime fraud and the protection of free speech.
She did not run for re-election in After Congress, Rankin divided her time between her ranch in Montana and her cabin in Georgia. She eventually resumed speaking engagements and grew increasingly concerned that America was exploiting underdeveloped countries overseas. Drawn by the nonviolent protest tactics of Mohandas K. Gandhi, Rankin traveled abroad, including to India. McCormack of Massachusetts. In the House celebrated her ninetieth birthday with a reception and dinner. Petersburg, FL: BookLocker.
See also Office of the Historian, U. I believe that war can be avoided and will be avoided when the people, the men and women in America, as well as in Germany, have the controlling voice in their government. See Josephson, Jeannette Rankin : 93— On the debate, see Smith, Jeannette Rankin : House of Representatives and the Nineteenth Amendment , May For more on the Nye Investigation, see Wayne S.
Cole, Senator Gerald P. La Guardia and Rankin were both first elected to the House in and became close friends. As a result, portions of the House debate went out live over the radio until House officials realized what was happening during the roll call. As part of a National Public Radio feature, Walter Cronkite reported on this broadcast focusing on the war of wills between Speaker Rayburn and Rankin.
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