Article: ASK THE GLOBE

Q. Who was the first woman nominated for president by a major party? In what year and by what party? -- F.T., Boston

A. The first woman nominated for the presidency of the United States was Victoria Claflin Woodhull, an Ohio-born spiritualist who was given the nod by a splinter group of the women's suffrage movement in 1872. According to Famous First Facts, Woodhull was nominated on May 10 of that year by the National ...

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