Which member of Congress voted against declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor?

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Pearl Harbor attack A U.S. battleship sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack.

The member of Congress who cast the sole dissenting vote against declaring war on Japan following the attack on Pearl Harbor was Jeannette Rankin, a Republican representative from Montana.12

Rankin was a committed pacifist whose opposition to the war was consistent with her earlier vote against entering World War I in 1917. Her vote on December 8, 1941, was the only dissenting voice in the House of Representatives, and it effectively ended her political career.12