At 3 a.m. Jeannette Rankin casts her first vote, as the first woman member of Congress, against going to war. Forty-nine other members of the House of Representatives join her, but the war resolution easily carries.
April 6, 1917 — I want to stand by my country – but I cannot vote for war.
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