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She was the first Asian American woman to run for president. [16] Tonie Nathan, the Libertarian Party's vice presidential candidate in 1972, was the first woman to receive an electoral vote, via faithless elector Roger MacBride. [17] New York Representative Geraldine Ferraro was
Chisholm became the first African American to run for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, making her also the first woman ever to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination (U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith having previously run for the 1964 Republican presidential nomination). [1]
Victoria Claflin Woodhull (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election.
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 ...
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, Lockwood was the first one to appear on any ballots, due to Woodhull being too young for the presidency when ...
In boosting Kamala Harris at DNC, Obamas go high and low. Harris, who embarked on a historic run of her own, would become the first female president and second president of color if elected in the ...
The election was nonpartisan, though the state Republican Party ran advertisements for Palin. [46] She ran for reelection against Stein in 1999 and won, 909 votes to 292. [47] In 2002, she completed the second of the two consecutive three-year terms allowed by the city charter. [48] She was elected president of the Alaska Conference of Mayors ...
Kamala Harris is only the second woman to be a major party's presidential candidate, following Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president without the right to vote, and ...