Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973
Variant namesA pacifist and feminist (B.A., University of Montana, 1902) Rankin was the first congresswoman, representing Montana in 1917-1919 and in 1941-43; she was the only Member of Congress to vote against U.S. participation in both world wars. In the 1920s she worked for the National Consumers' League and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and founded the Georgia Peace Society. In the 1930s, she worked for the National Council for Prevention of War. From 1945 to the early 1970s, she traveled extensively, especially in India, opposed the Vietnam War, and worked for the Equal Rights Amendment.
From the description of Papers, 1973. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007879
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| referencedIn | Hicks, Mildred, 1880-1961. Mildred and Mary Hicks papers, 1917-1945. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
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| creatorOf | Anne Henrietta Martin papers, 1892-1951. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
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| creatorOf | Clapp, Moses E. (Moses Edwin), 1851-1929. Moses E. Clapp papers, 1873-1929. | Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette. Jeannette Rankin interview / with Dick Cavett : typescript, 1972 Apr. 17. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Rainey, Glenn W. (Glenn Weddington), 1907-1988,. Glen Rainey oral history interview, 1977 Nov. 8. | Georgia State University | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1893-1978 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Surles, Flora Belle, 1887-1971?. Papers, 1917-1973 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Haste, Gwendolen. Gwendolen Haste papers, 1900-1964. | Campbell University, Wiggins Memorial Library | |
| referencedIn | Jeannette Rankin Brigade records, 1967-1968 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| creatorOf | National Council for Prevention of War (U.S.). Records, 1921-1975. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Missoula Women for Peace oral history project interviews, 2000 | University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | National American Woman Suffrage Association Records, 1839-1961, (bulk 1890-1930) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| referencedIn | Diana Davies Papers MS 309., 1960s-1996 (ongoing) | Sophia Smith Collection | |
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| creatorOf | Dickerman, Judson C., 1873-1967. Papers of Judson C. Dickerman [manuscript], 1924-1945. | University of Virginia. Library | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Letter, 1917 Sept. 6, Washington D.C., to Perry Walton, Boston. | Boston Athenaeum | |
| referencedIn | Newman, Pauline, ca. 1890-1986. Papers, 1900-1980 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
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| referencedIn | Smith, Norma, 1913-2001. Norma Smith papers, 1895-2000. | Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library | |
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| referencedIn | Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers in the Woman's Rights Collection, 1911-1924 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette. Collection, 1917-1968, 1917-1929. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| creatorOf | Hannah Clothier Hull Papers | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Newman, Pauline. Papers, 1903-1982 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Women's History, 1977-1980 | Indiana University, Bloomington. Center for the Study of History and Memory | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Mary Ware Dennett | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | McCulloch, Catharine Waugh, 1862-1945. Papers in the Mary Earhart Dillon collection, 1869-1945 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Committee on Militarism in Education (U.S.). Records, 1925-1940. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Papers, 1917, 1935-1973 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Cady, Alonzo D., ca. 1823-1917. Cady and Randolph family papers, 1844-1943. | Minnesota Historical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | Papers, ca.1905-1989 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | National Consumers' League Records, 1882-1986, (bulk 1920-1950) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| creatorOf | Papers of Jeannette Rankin, 1879-1976 (inclusive), 1916-1973 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Levy, Edward G. and Hortense R. Collection, 1829-1972 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Jeanette Rankin collection, 1917-2009 | University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette. Activist for world peace, women's rights, and democratic government : oral history transcript / Jeanette Rankin; tape recorded interview conducted by Malca Chall and Hannah Josephson in 1974. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1974 : and related material, 1972-1974. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Franklin, Robert A. Women in Congress radio broadcast, 1997. | Montana Historical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | Hayler, Guy Wilfrid. Guy Wilfrid Hayler papers, [ca. 1897-1962]. | UC Berkeley Libraries | |
| referencedIn | Papers | New Jersey Historical Society Library | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Jeannette Rankin recording, 1938-1941. | Montana Historical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | Cheek, Katrina Rebecca, 1946-. The rhetoric and revolt of Jeannette Rankin. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Lutz, Alma, 1890-1973. Collection of documents by and about abolitionists and women's rights activists, 1775-1943 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Board, John C. The lady from Montana : Jeannette Rankin. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Winestine, Belle Fligelman. Papers, 1972, n.d. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Papers of Edna Lamprey Stantial, 1836-1985 (inclusive), 1900-1955 (bulk) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Yarrow, Harriet. Papers, 1943-1974 (inclusive), 1943-1961 (bulk). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Billings, Harry L., 1913-1990. Harry L. and Gretchen Billings papers, 1940-1984. | Montana State University (Bozeman, Mont.). Library | |
| creatorOf | Jeanette Rankin Papers, 1916-1919 | Montana Historical Society Archives | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Papers, 1961-1971 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Harry L. and Gretchen Billings Papers, 1940-1984 | MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Foley, Margaret, 1875-1957. Papers, 1847-1968 (bulk: 1909-1929) | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | McKinnon, Edna Rankin, b. 1893. Papers, 1893-1978 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Rankin Family Papers, 1888-1946 | Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Papers, 1941-1945 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Papers, 1973. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Emergency Peace Campaign (U.S.). Records, 1935-1941 bulk, 1936-1937. | Swarthmore College, Peace Collection, SCPC | |
| referencedIn | Mary Church Terrell Papers, 1851-1962, (bulk 1886-1954) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| referencedIn | Gore Vidal papers, 1850-2020 (inclusive), 1936-2008 (bulk) | Houghton Library | |
| referencedIn | Geer, Peter Zack, 1927-. Peter Zack Geer, Jr. papers, 1923-1967. | Georgia Southern University | |
| referencedIn | Pendergrast, Nan, 1920-. Nan Pendergrast papers, 1935-1993. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
| referencedIn | Levy, Edward G.,. Edward G. and Hortense R. Levy Collection, 1829-1972 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Dennett, Mary Ware, 1872-1947. Papers: Series IV, 1910-1944 (inclusive) [microform]. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Hochstein, Irma E., 1887-1974. Irma E. Hochstein papers, 1916-1965. | Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project | |
| creatorOf | Manahan, James, 1866-1932. James Manahan and family papers, 1880-1937. | Minnesota Historical Society Library | |
| referencedIn | James Manahan and family papers., 1880-1937. | Minnesota Historical Society | |
| referencedIn | McKinnon, Edna Rankin, b. 1893. Audiotape collection of Edna Rankin McKinnon, ca. 1970 [sound recording]. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Jeannette Rankin collection, 1914-2001. | ||
| referencedIn | San Francisco Women for Peace records, 1943-[on-going] | Bancroft Library | |
| referencedIn | National American Woman Suffrage Association. National American Woman Suffrage Association records, 1839-1961 (inclusive), 1890-1930 (bulk), [microform]. | Yale University Library | |
| referencedIn | Anne McGrew Bennett Collection, 1959-84 | Graduate Theological Union | |
| referencedIn | Jeannette Rankin - scrapbook re, 1917-1966. | ||
| referencedIn | Gwendolen Haste papers, 1900-1964 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| creatorOf | Jeannette Rankin Brigade. Jeannette Rankin Brigade records, 1967-1968. | New York Public Library System, NYPL | |
| referencedIn | Lindseth collection of American woman suffrage, [ca. 1820-1920]. | Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. | |
| referencedIn | Norma Smith Papers, 1895-2000 | MSU-Bozeman Library, Merrill G Burlingame Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Catalogue I of the Regional Oral History Office, 1954-1979 | Bancroft Library | |
| referencedIn | Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office Oral History Interviews, 1959-1979, (bulk 1969-1975) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Papers, 1915-1965 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| referencedIn | Laidlaw, Harriet Burton, 1873-1949. Papers, 1851-1958 | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette, 1880-1973. Letters, 1917. | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Rankin, Jeannette. Papers, 1915-1965 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America | |
| creatorOf | Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office Oral History Interviews, 1959-1979, (bulk 1969-1975) | Library of Congress. Manuscript Division | |
| referencedIn | Davies, Diana, 1938-. Papers 1960-1996 (ongoing). | Smith College, Neilson Library | |
| referencedIn | Missoula Women for Peace Records on the Jeanette Rankin Statue, 1983-1988 | University of Montana--Missoula Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library Archives and Special Collections | |
| referencedIn | Suffragists Oral History Project (Bancroft Library). Transcripts of oral history project, 1959-1974 (inclusive). | Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America |
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Death 1973-05-18
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