Representative, Montana · 1917–1919, 1941–1943
Jeannette Rankin
First woman in Congress. Voted against entering both world wars. A pacifist progressive.
Jeannette Rankin is on the former-members chart, not the current Congress. The office on file is Representative, Montana, 1917–1919, 1941–1943. The placement note is: First woman in Congress. Voted against entering both world wars. A pacifist progressive.
The dot is economics -18 and authority -32. That is left of center on economics. The other axis sits toward liberty. Former members are placed from the public career, not from a 119th Congress Voteview score.
Said: Votes for women, and no war. Done: She voted against entering both world wars, the only member to do both, and lost the seat each time. The placement follows what the career did when the two diverge.
The nearest other former members on these two numbers are Russ Feingold (-28 / -24) and Frank Church (-20 / -18). Nearness is not a school of thought.
This page does not add votes that are not in the placement note. The bills themselves are in the Congressional Record for those years.