First Woman to Run for President
In 2008, many Americans supported Hillary Clinton in her run for the office of President of the United States, believing she was the first woman to do so.
But the truth is, she was actually the second. The first was a suffragette named Victoria Woodhull, who ran for President in 1872.
She was nominated by the newly formed Equal Rights Party, and Frederick Douglas was nominated as Vice-President, though he never acknowledged his nomination.
Victoria accepted, and though she received no electoral votes, there’s evidence that she received approximately 2,000 popular votes that weren’t counted.
