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US Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton is not the first woman to run for president.
As Janet Tavakoli at Tavakoli Structured Finance pointed out on Monday, a woman was first nominated in 1872.
Victoria Woodhull, also the first woman to work on Wall Street, secured a third-party nomination by the Equal Rights Party in the 1872 election.
Her opponents were Horace Greeley, of the Liberal Republican Party, and incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, of the Radial Republican Party.
Grant won, but Woodhull, along with her vice presidential candidate, Frederick Douglass, put up a good fight 48 years before women were even able to vote.
Her story is one of adversity and optimism — a rags-to-riches story of a woman from a rural town in Ohio who made it to Wall Street and then the presidential race.
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Lucinda Shen contributed to an earlier version of this post.
Woodhull was born September 23, 1838, in Licking County, Ohio. She was the seventh of 10 children raised by a con man and an illiterate spiritualist. Her sister Tennessee Celeste Claflin, the youngest, was born in 1844.
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When Woodhull was 11, her con-man father burned their family enterprise, a gristmill, to collect the insurance benefits, but the townspeople caught on, and the family was driven out of town instead.
Source: "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" by Mary Gabriel
At 14, Woodhull and Claflin, then 7, were marketed by their father as mediums who could heal people and communicate with the dead. They became the family's primary breadwinners.
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Her father wrote to Victoria: "Girl your worth has never yet been known, but to the world it shall be shown."
Source: "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" by Mary Gabriel
At 15, Victoria married 28-year-old Canning Woodhull, her doctor, who turned out to be a nobody. He had no steady medical practice and proved to be a serial adulterer and a drunkard. Woodhull had her fairy-tale notions of romance quickly dispelled.
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Source: "Notorious Victoria: The Life of Victoria Woodhull, Uncensored" by Mary Gabriel
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