Missoula center pleased with Rankin's $10 bill nomination

MISSOULA . (AP) — The suggestion by Sen. Steve Daines that the U.S. Treasury put the face of Jeannette Rankin on the $10 bill is being welcomed by advocates of the nation's first female congresswoman.

Betsy Mulligan-Dague, director of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center, said the development is exciting.

"It's a huge step forward for women to be taken seriously in the world," Mulligan-Dague said. "It's way past time."

Rankin would serve as a fitting figure for the bill and for further advancing the achievements of women, Mulligan-Dague told the Missoulian (http://bit.ly/1QJ8A2W ).

Rankin was fir...