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This was the first major party presidential primary in which multiple women competed. [42] Jo Jorgensen was the Libertarian nominee for president in 2020. She is the first woman to be nominated for president by that party. Jorgensen's 1.9 million votes represent the second-highest total for a female presidential candidate.
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]
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.
1872– Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first female presidential candidate in the United States, nominated by the National Radical Reformers. Female federal employees (but not private ...
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 ...
Hillary Clinton cemented her place in history amid a tense Democratic convention in Philadelphia Tuesday when delegates formally made her the nation's first female presidential nominee for a major ...
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 ...
Dr. Lenora Fulani was the first female (and first African-American) presidential candidate to secure ballot access in all 50 states; [208] she also secured the most votes ever gained by a female candidate in a presidential election until 2012. [209]