In 1941 she was the only member of the House of Rep. to vote against the Declaration of War against Japan
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in 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt asks Congress to declare war on Japan... [DOC] [TLE] Jeannette Rankin - Wikipedia [PAR] Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880  May 18, 1973) was the first woman 
to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the 
U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana.