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Originally Posted by TheMercenary
A wife and a Mistress.... 
The first woman to run for President:
Victoria Woodhull, born in 1838 in Homer, Ohio, was selected by the Equal Rights Party to be its candidate in the 1872 election.
http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/may06/women.html |
No shit? Fantastic, thanks for the link! That's really interesting. I tend to stick pretty much with Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, only really look at whats going on in other countries where it relates back to Britain *smiles* so it's kind of nice to step out of that and look at similar social movement elsewhere.
Though, actually, now I know shes from the nineteenth century, I think I have heard of her. Her names been mentioned in the context of women in te 'public sphere'. I had assumed you weretalking about candidates in more recent history:P