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Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too you…
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culture · American women's suffrage activist (1838–1927) · stockbroker · suffragist · editor · politician · journalist · women's rights activist · writer · feminist · also Victoria Woodhull, Victoria Claflin, Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Victoria Martin, Victoria Woodhull Martin, Victoria California Claflin Woodhull Blood Martin
Born 23 September 1838 · Died 9 June 1927 · Q260378
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Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.
2025· 1 entry
2024· 2 entries
Time: What Victoria Woodhull's Presidential Run Can Teach Us About America Today
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Yahoo News UK: What Victoria Woodhull's Presidential Run Says About America
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2019· 1 entry
Yahoo: Oakhurst Entertainment to Develop Victoria Woodhull Drama Series (EXCLUSIVE)
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2017· 1 entry
Teen Vogue: Brie Larson Will Play Victoria Woodhull, the First Woman to Run for President, in a New Movie
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2016· 4 entries
BroadwayWorld: Victoria Woodhull at Theater for the New City
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Yahoo: Meet Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president
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Snopes rated the claim “Victoria Woodhull, not Hillary Clinton, was the first female presidential nominee.” Mixture.
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Snopes.com: Victoria Woodhull Was the First Female Presidential Candidate, Not Hillary Clinton
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2008· 1 entry
Was posthumously awarded the "Ronald H
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2003· 1 entry
And it is named in honor of Victoria Woodhull
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2001· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (2001).
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Victoria Woodhull was posthumously inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1927· 2 entries
Died 1927-06-09.
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“Yes, I am a Free Lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or as short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please, and with that right neither you nor any law you can frame have any right to interfere.”
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1896· 1 entry
Concluded that "suffrage is only one phase of the larger question of women's emancipation
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1877· 1 entry
William Henry Vanderbilt paid Woodhull and her sister Claflin $1,000 (equivalent to $30,000 in 2025) to leave the country because he was worried they might testify in hearings on the distribution of the elder Vanderbilt'
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1875· 2 entries
Woodhull began to publicly espouse Christianity and she changed her political stances
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For adultery in a proceeding that proved to be one of the most sensational legal episodes of the era, gripping the attention of hundreds of thousands of Americans: the trial ended with a hung jury, but the church won the
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1872· 5 entries
Woodhull, Claflin and Col
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And expressed approval of the expulsions
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The Weekly published a story that set off a national scandal and preoccupied the public for months
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Woodhull publicly criticized well-known clergyman Henry Ward Beecher for adultery
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From the Equal Rights Party, supporting women's suffrage and equal rights; her running mate (unbeknownst to him) was abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass
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1871· 2 entries
The Germans expelled most of the English-speaking members of the First International's U
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Publicly spoke out against the government only being composed of men; she proposed the development of a new constitution and the creation of a new government a year thence
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1870· 4 entries
Woodhull and Claflin used the money they had made from their brokerage to found a newspaper, the Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly, which at its height had a national circulation of 20,000
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Woodhull's letter to the editor of the New York Herald was published, announcing her candidacy
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With the assistance of the wealthy Cornelius Vanderbilt, an admirer of Woodhull's skills as a medium; he is rumored to have been Tennie's lover, and to have seriously considered marrying her
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Opened a brokerage firm on Wall Street
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1868· 1 entry
By Demosthenes to what symbolism to use supporting her theories of Free Love
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1854· 1 entry
A condition Victoria believed was caused by her husband's alcoholism
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1853· 1 entry
When Victoria was two months past her 15th birthday
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1838· 1 entry
Born 1838-09-23.
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