California Congressman John Raker took office in 1911, the same year the state’s women won the right to vote, and the year this photograph was taken. When the House under Democratic control created a Woman Suffrage Committee in 1917, he became its first chairman, serving alongside Republican Jeannette Rankin as the committee’s ranking member. The two worked together to pass the Anthony Amendment, winning the needed two-thirds vote the following year—only to be frustrated by opponents in the Senate.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1911
California Congressman John Raker took office in 1911, the same year the state’s women won the right to vote, and the year this photograph was taken. When the House under Democratic control created a Woman Suffrage Committee in 1917, he became its first chairman, serving alongside Republican Jeannette Rankin as the committee’s ranking member. The two worked together to pass the Anthony Amendment, winning the needed two-thirds vote the following year—only to be frustrated by opponents in the Senate.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1911