[US Navy Vet]

For X-Tra Credit, What State?

[TexasCajun]

Algore's invention makes it too easy.

I'd be impressed if someone knew without looking it up.

...surprising.

[LazloToth]

I don’t remember her name but she was the first woman ever elected to Congress and was from Montana. A Quaker I believe.

[freekitty]

Jannette Rankin. I looked it up.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Who: Nancy Pelosi She’s about that old.
Why: Because she’s a bitch that’s why.

[Gen.Blather]

Montana.
Jeannette Rankin.
She was anti-war. She said if women couldn’t fight in a war then she wouldn’t vote for one. (Not sure that’s what she meant.) But she was in the anti-war party.

[KoRn]

It was a woman Congressman from Montana(I think).

I believe she was a member of the “America First” isolationist movement, wasn’t she? (that group didn’t have much of a shelf life, post Pearl Harbor)

[rightwingintelligentsia]

Ron Paul—Texas?

;-)

[Hugin]

Ron Paul?

[facedown]

She (Rankin) was the founding Vice-President of the American Civil Liberties Union[8] and a founding member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.

[ExCTCitizen]

Hmmm... Robert ‘KKK’ Byrd?? ;-)

[kenmcg]

Thanks for letting me learn something today. Rankin first elected to a term in 1916 and voted against WW1. A life long pacifist she finished up in 1919 and was re-elected in 1940 and sure enough voted against WW2. She believed FDR had advance knowledge of the attack. She went on to prot- est the Viet=Nam War.

[GATOR NAVY]

For X-Tra Credit, What State?

The state (Montana) was all I remembered. I certainly didn't remember it was a woman.