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Rankin

noun

Leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973). Synonym: Jeannette Rankin.

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... and lumber plants in southeastern Mississippi were especially affected by the exodus. In Hinds, Copiah, Lincoln, Rankin, Newton and Lake counties, many white residents rather than suffer their crops to be lost, worked in the fields. It was reported that numbers of these whites were leaving for the Delta and for Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas. Firms there attempted to look in ...

— Negro Migration during the War • Emmett J. Scott

... Harper and Abraham Rankin are married this morning. Meeting at Andrew Harold's in Mt. Vernon. Subject, Matt. 7:21. After dinner we cross the Alleghany mountain to Alexander Gilmore's, on Back Creek. Night meeting at Green Hill. John 1 is read. Stay all night at John ...

— Life and Labors of Elder John Kline, the Martyr Missionary - Collated from his Diary by Benjamin Funk • John Kline

Words linked to "Rankin" : suffragist, politician, politico, Jeannette Rankin, political leader, pol