Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. The Republican Representative from Montana was elected in ...

The status of women voting or running for office in North Dakota was a gray area in February and March of 1920.

Jeannette Rankin, right, in a carriage with Carrie Chapman Catt, center, upon Rankin’s arrival in Washington, D.C., 1917. Courtesy of the Library of Congress. By Mary Walton A few months into ...