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Geraldine Ferraro (1984). The presidential nominee was Walter Mondale.
Yes. The Democratic Party nominated Geraldine Ferraro to run as Vice-President with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984. They were beaten by Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush.
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.
the last woman that ran for president was African American
Vida Goldstein became the 1st female in the British Empire to run for national office when she ran for the Australian Senate in 1902. At the time, women had recently gotten the right to vote in federal elections.
Sarah Palin, former governor of Alaska, in 2008 became the first woman to be the Republican nominee for vice-president .
False. She was the first to run for Vice President.
No woman has ever ran for president on either the democratic or republican tickets. So if Hillary Clinton wins in the primary elections then she would become the firsrt woman to run for president on the democratic ticket. In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman to run for vice-president on a major party ticket.
Geraldine Ferraro (1984). The presidential nominee was Walter Mondale.
No, Michelle Obama is President Obama's wife, the First Lady. Although there have been females who were candidates for both president and vice president, so far, the United States has never had a woman president, nor a woman vice president. It should be noted that some sources expect Hillary Clinton to be a candidate for president in 2016: if she does decide to run, she will be the first former First Lady to also run for president. Michelle Obama has also been asked about running for office after her husband is no longer president; but she has said that at this point, she has no interest in being a political candidate.
Geraldine Ferraro was the first woman to run on a major Presidential election ticket. She ran with Walter Mondale as the Vice Presidential candidate in 1984.
Ross was a woman in 1700's and women had no rights nor could they vote. She was a seamstress and that is all. The story about her sewing the first flag is wrong and written after her death by her grandson. The first flag was made in 1776 for the navy and Congress has recognized this as a historical fact. The first woman to run for the office of Vice President was Geraldine Farro and that was over a 100 years after Ross.
Yes. The Democratic Party nominated Geraldine Ferraro to run as Vice-President with Presidential candidate Walter Mondale in 1984. They were beaten by Ronald Reagan and George HW Bush.
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first woman to run for president of the us
Gerald R. Ford
Lincoln attempted to run for Vice President in 1856 when he was 47.