In 1916, Jeannette Rankin ran for and was eventually elected to congress - the first woman to do so. Did the campaign garner any national attention at the time? Was there controversy surrounding or resistance to the monumental precedent that could be set if she were elected?
Follow up question- When she ran again (and was elected) in 1940, did he get national attention (or campaign on ) for having been such a pioneer a quarter century earlier?