Who is the first woman to run for president of the united states?

Question

Who is the first woman to run for president of the united states?

Answer 1

Victoria Woodhull in 1872

Answer 2

Victoria Woodhull! :]

Answer 3

Hilary Clinton, of course!

Answer 4

barack obama

Answer 5

• The first woman to run for president of the United States was Victoria Woodhull, a stockbroker and publisher, who ran as the candidate of the Equal Rights Party in 1872.

• In 1884 and 1888, Belva Lockwood (a lawyer who lived in Maryland) also ran for President as a candidate of the Equal Rights Party. She announced her candidacy from a farm in Maryland. Her candidacy for the Presidency was controversial, and she won only 4,149 votes, losing the election to Grover Cleveland. She had been denied permission to practice law in Maryland in 1873, and was told by the judge that “Women are not needed in the courts. Their place is in the home to wait upon their husbands, to bring up their children, to cook the meals, make beds, polish pans, and dust furniture.” Belva Lockwood drafted a bill to permit women to practice before the United States Supreme Court, and in 1879 became the first woman to win that right.

• In 1964 Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Republican from Maine, became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for President at a major political party convention. In 1972 Representative Shirley Chisholm, Democrat from New York, ran for President in the Democratic primaries. In 2000 Elizabeth Dole was in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, and in 2008 Senator Hillary Clinton is running to be the Presidential nominee for the Democratic Party .

• In 1984 Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro (Democrat from New York) became the first woman ever to run on a major party’s national ticket as a Vice Presidential candidate.

http://www.mdwomensheritagecenter.org/el...

Answer 6

Victoria Woodhull, a women's rights leader, and opponent of slavery in 1872

Answer 7

What matters is the first to run who had any real chance...that would be Hillary.

All others in the past were never taken seriously by any standard.

What gets me is the emphasis on "woman".  Plenty of other countries around the world have had leaders who were women. Take notice of the syntax there...leaders who were women.  The governing dynamic is leadership, not s*x.

Answer 8

Victoria Woodhouse back in the 1800's -- before women could even vote.

Answer 9

Hilary Clinton

Answer 10

Hillary Clinton.

Answer 11

hillary clintonio jk it was geraldine ferraro or something