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Article: ASK THE GLOBE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 6, 1988
CopyrightCopyright 1988 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 ...