10 Forgotten Women in American History - When Jeannette Rankin marched for the Woman’s Cause, wearing her yellow ribbon and chanting “Votes for Women” back in September of 1914, no was thinking that there would be a day when this same woman would become the country’s first female Congress member. Two years later, in 1916, Rankin, registered Republican, was elected to Congress by the voters of Montana. Her infamous words were, “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last
