http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11,
1880 May 18, 1973) was the first woman to be elected to the United States House of Representatives and the first female member of the Congress sometimes referred to as the Lady of the House. A lifelong pacifist, she voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I and World War II, the ...