Four Women in HistoryMany women have contributed to supporting women's rights, leaving their mark in history. Four women will be discussed, describing their work and the events that incorporated the campaign that each woman supported or led. Jeannette Rankin (active 1910-1968) Born June 11, 1880, Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to the United States Congress in age 36. After attending college, she tried several jobs, following her mother's example as a teacher, then a seamstress, and finally a social worker. She was also a pacifist, reformer, and activist for women's suffrage. After moving to Washington state, she became involved in the suffrage movement, advocating the need to amend that state's constitution, allowing women the right to vote. Once Washington ratified it in 1911, Rankin returned home to Montana, fighting for the freedom to vote there, taking until 1914 to establish those rights. Building on her activist background, Rankin was elected to the United States Congress in 1916 and would serve a second term in 1916. 1940. This gave her a unique opportunity to vote against the United States' entry into the war in World War I (in 1917) and the Second World War (in 1941). However, she fought for the rights of women workers in the war effort, creating women's rights legislation. At the end of her term in 1919, Rankin was a delegate to the International Women's Peace Conference in Switzerland. Subsequently, she was an active member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In 1939, Rankin ran again for a seat in the United States House of Representatives, winning on his anti-war stance. She voted against entering the war, although Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941, being the only protest vote. After the end of the... middle of the paper... she ran for president under the ideologically Georgian Commonwealth Land Party. With Nettie Rogers Shuler, in 1923 Catt published Woman Suffrage and Politics: The Inner Story of the Suffrage Movement. She was active in antiwar causes in the 1920s and 1930s, returning to the peace movement and founding a new organization, the National Committee for the Cause and Cure of War (NCCCW). They separated the causes of war into four classes: political, economic, psychological and social/contributory. The organization took it upon itself to end the wars since women seemed morally courageous, while men were seen as physically courageous. In 1940 in New York, Catt helped organize the Centennial Congress of Women, a centennial congress of women. celebration of the feminist movement in the United States. She died in New Rochelle, New York, in March. 9, 1947.