Thorton Building

Historical marker location:

221 Main Street, Stevensville, Montana

( Marker is on Main Street (State Highway 269) near 3rd Street, on the right when traveling south.)

221 Main Street. 1908.

Montana was the first state to elect a woman to Congress, Jeannette Rankin, who was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. She was a pacifist and voted against the entry of the United States into both World War I and World War II.