Victoria Woodhull Quotes
When I first came to Wall Street, not 100 women in the whole of the United States owned stocks or dared to show independence in property ownership. Highest positioned men scowled at any thought of women investment. For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
First female presidential candidate & first divorcee to run for that office. Woodhull and her sister became the first women to obtain a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. They made a great deal of money, and then Woodhull wrote an exposé of Wall Street and the way the Stock Exchange was rigged. It was almost 100 years before the New York Stock Exchange would take a chance on another woman.
Victoria Woodhull, 1838-1927, First Financier & Female Stock Broker, Suffragette Leader, Publisher & Business Woman, Equal Rights Party Candidate for President of the United States, Quoted Mary Gabriel, Notorious Victoria
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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.
