저넷 랭킨

소개

저넷 피커링 랜킨(영어: Jeannette Pickering Rankin, 1880년 6월 11일 ~ 1973년 5월 18일)은 미국의 최초 여성 하원 의원이다.

Jeannette Pickering Rankin was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940. Rankin remains the only woman ever elected to Congress from Montana.