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For the month of women’s history, I wanted to highlight Victoria Woodhoul, who wrote a letter to New York Herald In 1870, she announced that she was nominated for the presidency. At that time, a woman was not allowed to vote, but there were no laws against the launch of a presidential campaign – perhaps because no one could imagine that a woman would have been working at all.

Woodhull was a passionate player often forgotten. He kept the rights of conjugation at the time, because it had other “scandal” opinions that they did not want to distort their case. She was also a divorced woman with the controversial past, as if she was spiritual spiritual and the daughter of Conneman who raised his family to many criminal plans.

However, as a person who moved from the uneducated bumpkin to one of the richest and most controversial people of its time, and a person who is not afraid to take action against grievances, and went from wealth to breach in order to promote its ideas for a better nation, it must stand between the most Americans in history.

A long time before Kamala Harris, and a long time ago from Hillary Clinton, there was Victoria Cleavian Woodhoul. The first woman to nominate the President of the United States to do so 50 years before allowing women to vote.

Victoria Woodhoul was very poor in a large family in Ohio rural, and sometimes she has to beg for food. Her father was a seller of snake oil and her sister, they gained their livelihood for the family as a piercing.

She got married to canning Woodhoul at the age of fifteen and quickly discovered that he was addicted to alcohol and

With his help, she and her sister became the first brokers of flowers in Wall Street, to shock New York City. It will be a horn before another woman runs mediation.

They took their newly discovered wealth and started the first newspaper in the country run by women, where they shared their radical ideas on workers ’rights and

Women in the nineteenth century were obligated to marry with few options for escaping, and they were socially rejected if they did divorce, which Woodhoul knew of experience. Although she continued to marry more twice.

Woodhull has become the first woman to witness before the Congress Committee, on the pretext that women have already achieved the right to vote - that the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments included this right to all citizens. Its logic impressed many, but Congress did not budge.

In 1871, she and other women tried to vote, and asked the election officials: "What right do you refuse to accept the vote of the citizens of the United States?" They were not allowed to vote.

In 1872, she won the title of Equality Rights Candidate to be the next president of the United States. In addition to the right of women, she supported: 8 hours working day, general education for all, liberal divorce laws, and one boundaries for presidents.

Frederick Douglas chose her vice president (without his knowledge), with the aim of uniting the polls and civil rights activists. He never admitted the nomination. She gave noisy letters to many large crowds.

A few days before the elections, she was arrested on charges of obscenity to publish a famous preaching relationship story and send a copy of it via mail. Beecher's story was the largest scandal of celebrities and the trial of the times, and it broke it.

Woodhoul, her husband and sister were held in prison for the next month, which prevents her from voting during the elections and asking questions about government persecution.

And Olesis S. Grant to win his re -election. Ironically, Victoria did not prevent her from nomination, but her 34 -year -old was not prevented from presidency. She ran in any case, to push her ideas on the rights of workers and women.

Victoria has made her mark by looking further than the right to vote (which she thought had already had), and prompted women to make the highest position on the ground, proving the path that many others have tried since then.

From today, 24 women have been nominated for the presidency and more will.

Jackie Lay works on the Visuals team in NPR. It is the animation and the painter that was published in Atlantic Oceanand Fox and Washington Post. Find more online work, on Jackieya.com.

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