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Top-right: Hillary Clinton was the first woman nominated for president by a major political party and the first woman to win the national popular vote in 2016. Center: Kamala Harris became the first female vice president in 2020. She became the second woman nominated for president by a major political party, in 2024.
Woodhull was politically active in the early 1870s when she was nominated as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency. [9] Woodhull was the candidate in 1872 from the Equal Rights Party , supporting women's suffrage and equal rights; her running mate (unbeknownst to him) was abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass . [ 12 ]
Geraldine Anne Ferraro (August 26, 1935 – March 26, 2011) was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney. She served in the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1985, and was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1984 presidential election, running alongside Walter Mondale; this made her the first female vice-presidential nominee representing a major ...
The first woman to run for president, believe it or not, began her campaign in 1872. The Center for American Women and Politics tells the story of Victoria Claflin Woodhull, who ran against ...
Clinton was formally nominated at the 2016 Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia on July 26, 2016, becoming the first woman to be nominated for president by a major U.S. political party. [424] Her choice of vice presidential running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, was nominated by the convention the following day. [425]
CHICAGO — Hillary Clinton took the stage in suffragette white Monday to pass the torch to a woman she hopes will do what she couldn’t — become the first female president of the United States.
Clinton – the first woman to capture a major-party nomination for president – said Democrats were “writing a new chapter in America’s story” as she launched into a history of women ...
Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. [1] While Victoria Woodhull is commonly cited as the first woman to run for president, she was not old enough to be elected, unlike Lockwood.