Good morning, Whitewater.
Monday in town will be mostly sunny with a high of sixty-four. Sunrise is 6:38 AM and sunset 4:38 PM, for 10h 00m 24s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 46.5% of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1916, Jeannette Rankin is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives:
Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was the first woman to hold federal office in the United States when, in 1916, she was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives by the state of Montana.[1] She won a second House term 24 years later, in 1940.
Each of Rankin’s Congressional terms coincided with initiation of U.S. military intervention in each of the World Wars. A lifelong pacifist, she was one of 50 House members (total of 56 in both chambers) who opposed the war declaration of 1917, and the only member of Congress to vote against declaring war on Japan after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.[2][3]
Rankin was also instrumental in initiating the legislation that eventually became the 19th Constitutional Amendment, granting unrestricted voting rights to women; and she championed the causes of gender equality and civil rights throughout a career that spanned more than six decades….
Rankin’s campaign for one of Montana’s two at-large House seats in the congressional election of 1916 was financed and managed by her brother Wellington, an influential member of the Montana Republican Party. The campaign involved traveling long distances to reach the state’s widely scattered population. Rankin rallied support at train stations, street corners, potluck suppers on ranches, and remote one-room schoolhouses. She was elected on November 7, by over 7,500 votes, to become the first female member of Congress.[5][9]
JigZone‘s daily puzzle for Monday is of candy: