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https://miwf.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ruth-thompson.jpg300300Although women earned the right to vote in the United States in 1920, it was not until 1951, three decades later, that Michigan had its first female member of the U.S. Congress, Ruth Thompson, a Republican from Whitehall.