Jeanette Rankin

In the 65th Congress, 1918.

This group portrait of the Sixty-fifth U.S. Congress in front of the U.S. Capitol, taken on March 20, 1918, shows Jeanette Rankin at No. 64. She was at that time the first and only woman to serve in Congress.

Group Portrait of the Sixty-fifth U.S. Congress in Front of the U.S. Capitol, March 20, 1918 (Library of Congress).
A PDF index to the people in the photo is available here. The Library of Congress notes that “Identification of the group based on presence of Jeannette Rankin in the photo; Rankin was the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, serving in the 65th Congress. Date based on article, ‘Representatives Pose for Group Pictures,’ Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 20 March 1918, p. 17.” See Who's Who In the 65th, on the U.S. House of Representatives History, Art and Archives Blog.

Further discussion of Jeanette Rankin's tenure in the 65th Congress can be found in another blog-entry entitled No Woman is an Island, also at the U.S. House of Representatives History, Art and Archives Blog.