Butte-Anaconda-Walkerville

Historical marker location:

42 West Daly Street, Butte, Montana

( Marker is on West Daly Street west of A Street, on the right when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1961

National Historic Landmark.

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.