Speaker on Jeannette Rankin will be in Havre

Press release H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum

According to local author Gary A. Wilson, in his book, “Honky-Tonk Town, Havre, Montana's Lawless Era,” a young Jeannette Rankin came to town in October and November 1914 to speak on behalf of “prohibition, but also for social, labor and political reform.”

She also urged the adoption of women’s suffrage, which passed by a small margin in the election on Nov. 3, 1914.

Women’s suffrage set the stage for her election as the first woman to the U.S. House of Representatives, Nov. 7, 1916.

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