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She became the first female, Black, and Asian American vice president upon winning the 2020 election, defeating the Republican candidate, incumbent Vice President Mike Pence. [43] Following Joe Biden's withdrawal from the 2024 election, Harris announced her candidacy for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. [44]
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Women presidents in North America. It includes Women presidents in North America that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
First president to marry a divorced woman. [86] First president to kill someone [v] in a duel. [88] First president to survive an assassination attempt while in office. [w] [89] [90] First president born in the Carolinas. [91] First president to ride on a railroad train. [92] First president to be censured by the US Senate, although it was ...
This category lists the first women presidents of their respective countries. Equivalent positions of non-royal heads of state are also included (for example, chairperson). ). Excluded are heads of government that are not heads of state, (for example, prime minister), other officials, and presidents of non-government entit
Frances Perkins became the first woman to serve in a president's cabinet when she was appointed Secretary of Labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. [2] Patricia Roberts Harris was the first African-American woman and the first woman of color to serve in a presidential cabinet when she was named Secretary of Housing and Urban ...
Victoria C. Woodhull: First Woman to Run for President", The Women's Quarterly (Fall 1988) Victoria Woodhull, Topics in Chronicling America, Library of Congress "A lecture on constitutional equality," delivered at Lincoln hall, Washington, D.C., Thursday, February 16, 1871, by Victoria C. Woodhul, American Memory, Library of Congress