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Clinton became the first woman to win the national popular vote, receiving nearly 66 million ballots to Donald Trump's 63 million, but lost the electoral college and thus the presidency. [26] The Green Party has run a female candidate for president four times: Cynthia McKinney in 2008 and Jill Stein in 2012, 2016, and 2024. Stein's 1.5 million ...
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
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]
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 ...
Belva Lockwood was the first woman (or second, depending on one's opinion, after Victoria Woodhull) to run for President of the United States. Lockwood ran as the candidate of the National Equal Rights Party. She ran in the presidential elections of 1884 and 1888. Her running mate was Marietta Stow in 1884
In 2016, Clinton nearly became the first female president. Kamala Harris is only the second woman to be a major party's presidential candidate, following Hillary Clinton in 2016. In 1872, Victoria ...
As a third-party candidate in the election of 1968, Mitchell was the first Black woman to run for President of the United States. [1] [10] She represented the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and her running mate was Michael "Mike" Zagarell, the National Youth Director of the party. [11]
Women won more than half of Team USA’s medals at the Olympics, only 33 Fortune 500 companies sponsor women's pro sports, and Kamala Harris would be the first female president—but she's talking ...