Geraldine Ferraro was the 1984 candidate of the Democratic Party that ran for that office. Others had run for the position but all from minor political parties.
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Geraldine Ferraro ran for Vice-President with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale on the Democratic ticket in 1984.
Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to run as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984. She was the first woman nominated to run for public office. Ronald Reagan won the election for his second term of office that year.
In 1884 Marietta (Lizzie Bell) Stow was the first woman candidate for vice president. She ran on The Equal Rights party ticket. Exactly, one-hundred years later, in 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was the first vice presidential candidate of a major party -- the Democratic Party.
Geraldine Ferraro was member of the U.S. House of Representatives from the 9th District in New York who ran for Vice President of the United States on the Democratic Party ticket with running mate Walter Mondale in 1984. They were defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush. She later served as United States' ambassador to the United Nations. Geraldine Ferraro died on March 26, 2011, after a 12-year battle with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer.
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Her name was Geraldine Ferraro . She was a Democrat from NY and ran with Walter Mondale in 1984.
Geraldine Ferraro was her name . She was a congressman for New York.
Geraldine Ferraro ran for Vice-President with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale on the Democratic ticket in 1984.
Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to run for Vice-President on the Democratic ticket in 1984. Walter Mondale was the Presidential candidate.
(Former) Vice President Walter Mondale (D-MN), his running mate was Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY). Ferraro was the first female VP candidate representing a big political party. President Reagan made history (along side President Nixon) to carry 49 out of 50 States.
The winning VP was George H. W. Bush.
Geraldine Ferraro ran as the Vice-Presidential candidate on Democrat Walter Mondale's Presidential ticket in 1984. President Reagan defeated Mondale; I guess you could say Vice-President George HW Bush (the elder) defeated Ferraro.
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The opposing candidates for VP were Walter Mondale in 1980 and Geraldine Ferraro in 1984.
Marrietta Stow ran for the National Equal Rights Party in 1884. As far as I know she's the first documented female to run for vice president in the united states. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_United_States_presidential_and_vice-presidential_candidates
Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to run as Vice-President on the Democratic ticket with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984. She was the first woman nominated to run for public office. Ronald Reagan won the election for his second term of office that year.