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=**__ Jeannette Rankin__**: She was born in 1880 and passed away in 1973. She was the first women to be elected into the U.S. Congress. She was a republican and a pacifist. All her life she was strongly against wars and she was the only vote against World War 1 and World War 2. To this day she is the only women elected into congress from Montana. Rankin traveled to India seven times during 1947-1971 to study the non-violent movement acts displayed by Ghandi.=