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Jeannette Rankin for Congress Window Sticker

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Date

1940

Maker

Allied Printing

Dimensions

3 3/4 × 11 in. (9.5 × 27.9 cm)

Accession Number

2015.012.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Jeannette Rankin was the first woman in Congress when she served her first term in the House in 1917. She ran again in 1940, and used this sticker as part of her campaign. It was made for a car, where it would be, in the words of an early commentator, a “moving political advertisement.” Americans announced their political support on cars long before bumper stickers (or even bumpers) became part of the motoring landscape in the 1950s. This sticker is made of paper, with adhesive on the front, which was dampened and placed on the inside of a rear window.

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This Hearst-Pathe News footage features the opening day of the 65th Congress (1917–1919) on April 2, 1917, as President Woodrow Wilson calls Congress into special session to ask for a declaration of war against Germany. Suffrage activists escort Representative-elect Jeannette Rankin of Montana from the Sewall-Belmont House to the nearby Capitol. Speaker of the House James Clark of Missouri and Minority Leader James Mann of Illinois pose outside the Capitol, as police corral pacifist protestors on the East Front.
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