Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1964 presidential election, but was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party's convention.
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Victoria Claflin Woodhullis best known as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency.
Margaret Madeline Chase Smith was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 1964 presidential election, but was the first woman to be placed in nomination for the presidency at a major party's convention.
Victoria Claflin Woodhullis best known as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency.
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There has not yet been a female US president ! All US presidents so far have been male. Senator Hillary Clinton made a pretty strong run for the nomination in 2008 . Each major party has run a woman for vice-president but neither won.
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No woman has ever been nominated for US president yet. Margarette Chase Smith senator from Maine in 1964
The Equal Rights Party, in 1872, selected Victoria Woodhull as their candidate to run for President of the US, even though women did not even have the right to vote yet. Fifteen hundred men and women nominated Woodhull by acclamation.
Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Barack Obama was not the first Black person to run for President. John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (1964) Musician /Activist Eldridge Cleaver (1968) writer of Soul on Ice Shirley Chisholm (1972) First Black congresswoman / First Black Woman to run for president
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