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Representative Jeannette Rankin of Montana served two terms in Congress: 1917–1919 and 1941–1943. A pacifist, she was one of 50 representatives to vote against U.S. entry into World War I and the only member of Congress to oppose entry into World War II. In 1968 she led five thousand women in a march on Congress protesting the Vietnam War.
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