who was the woman elected to us congress

So, who was the first woman elected to us congress?

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to us congress.
Three years before women won the right to vote with the passage of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, a social worker and suffragette became the first woman elected to the US Congress. Jeannette Rankin was elected to United States.
Till now 249 women have been elected or appointed to the U.S. Congress. Jeannette Rankin , Republican from Montana, was the first woman elected to serve in Congress.

And in 1916 Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first women elected to Congress. Yet the US Congress was no closer to passing the suffrage amendment than before and the majority of American women had no democratic rights covered by.

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