John Rankin Research Paper

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Rankin was born on June 11, 1880 in Missoula, Montana. She was the oldest of seven siblings. Her mother, Olive Pickering, was an elementary school teacher. Her father, John Rankin was a victorious rancher and lumber businessman. He passed away in 1904, shortly after Jeannette graduated from University of Montana in 1902. When Jeannette’s father died she assumed the responsibility for five sisters and her brother, to whom she grew very close and who aided her in many of her future political attempt. On a trip to visit her brother at Harvard in 1904, she became aware of the dirty city conditions. As she traveled through Boston, New York, and Chicago she witnessed the clear contrast between the poverty of the urban people and the wealth

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