It’s not like you
need the fingers of more than one hand to count the women who have run for president
of the United States.
In fact, Hillary
makes two.
Almost 145 years
ago, the Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria California Claflin Woodhull to
run for president against incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant and
Horace Greeley, the nominee of both the Democratic and Liberal Republican
parties.
Woodhull didn’t get
any Electoral College votes, and there is no authenticated count of the number
of votes she received.
In any event, she
hadn’t reached her 35th birthday, and was legally ineligible to be
elected.
Woodhull, a
suffragette, had a somewhat notorious career as a stockbroker, newspaper editor
and a high-profile advocate of women’s rights, including the right to vote.
The weird thing is,
of course, she couldn’t vote for herself. American women got the right to vote
nationwide only in August 1920, with the ratification of the 19th Amendment.
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