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Some female U.S. senators have later run for U.S. president or vice president—see list of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates. In 2020, Kamala Harris became the first female senator, current or past, to win her vice presidential election bid and become the first female President of the United States Senate.
First woman to run for a Senate seat - Jeannette Rankin - 1918 [274] First female to preside over the House – Alice Mary Robertson of Oklahoma - 1921 [citation needed] First woman to be appointed to the United States Senate - Rebecca Latimer Felton - 1922 [275] First woman to be elected to the United States Senate - Hattie Caraway - 1932 [276]
Victoria Woodhull was the first female to run for President of the United States, nominated by the Equal Rights Party, with a platform supporting women's suffrage and equal rights. 1873: The trial of Susan B. Anthony is held. She is denied a trial by jury and loses her case. She never pays the $100 fine for voting.
Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway (February 1, 1878 – December 21, 1950) was an American politician who was United States Senator from Arkansas from 1931 to 1945. She was the first woman elected to the Senate, the first woman to serve a full term as a United States senator, and the first woman to be reelected to the Senate.
[24] [25] As a major party nominee, Clinton became the first woman to participate in a presidential debate and the first to carry a state in a general election. 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 ...
Ada H. Kepley becomes the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school. 1872– Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first female presidential candidate in the United States ...
Paula Hawkins (née Fickes; January 24, 1927 – December 4, 2009) was an American politician from Florida.She is the only woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Florida. She was the second woman ever elected to the Senate from the American Sou
Gladys Shields Pyle [1] (October 4, 1890 – March 14, 1989) was an American educator and national record setting female politician during the first score of years post-ratification of Women's Suffrage Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, who set numerous national and state partisan electoral records before the age of 50, including at least a dozen national records related to her 1938 U. S ...