Victoria Woodhull Quotes


Thus it comes about that (with some few exceptions) we have a House of Commons composed of a number of mediocrities who are content to echo the shibboleths of their party, to vote like sheep and to respond to the crack of the party whip.


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Victoria Woodhull, 1838-1927, First Financier & Female Stock Broker, Suffragette Leader, Publisher &, Equal Rights Party Candidate for President of the United States, First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office, The Humanitarian (England), March 1895

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Victoria Woodhull
Victoria Woodhull
  • Born: September 23, 1838
  • Died: June 9, 1927
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Suffragist, Politician, Feminist, Writer.

Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for President of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35 (Woodhull's 35th birthday was in September 1873, seven months after the March inauguration). However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a significant issue; this may, however, be due to the fact that few took the candidacy seriously.