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Rankin   /rˈæŋkɪn/   Listen
Rankin

noun
1.
Leader in the women's suffrage movement in Montana; the first woman to serve in the United States House of Representatives (1880-1973).  Synonym: Jeannette Rankin.





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"Rankin" Quotes from Famous Books



... the fields of the Civil War, just after a bloody battle, the Rev. James Rankin of the United Presbyterian Church bent over a dying soldier. Asked if he had any special request to make, the brave fellow replied, "Yes, sing ...
— The Story of the Hymns and Tunes • Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
... Courts of Bankruptcy, and in police- offices, and in other commodious exhibition-rooms, with great effect, but who have not yet found favour at court; in consequence, as I infer, of the impression made by Mr. Rankin's wild men being too fresh and recent, to say nothing of Mr. Rankin's ...
— Miscellaneous Papers • Charles Dickens


Words linked to "Rankin" :   Jeannette Rankin, politico, suffragist, political leader, pol, politician


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