Mary Teresa Norton: For Fair Labor Standards

The first women in Congress were not exactly careerists. Jeannette Rankin of Montana, the first ever woman to sit in Congress, served only two terms: 1917 to 1919, and 1941 to 1943. Both times she famously voted against US entry into the World Wars, and in the latter case she was alone. The second, Mary Robertson of Oklahoma, was a one-timer who was qui…