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Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifact Collection, Art…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1991.61.18.
Victoria Woodhull
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifact Collection, Art…
Image courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Museum Artifact Collection, Artifact No. 1991.61.18.

Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Woodhull, a charismatic fortune-teller from Ohio who’d attended a suffrage convention in 1869, moved to New York, and reinvented herself as a stockbroker, became the first woman to run for president [in 1872]; she ran as a "self-nominated" candidate of the party she helped create, the Equal Rights Party; ingeniously, she argued that women already had the right to vote, under the privileges and immunities clause of the Constitution -- an argument Woodhull brought before a House Judiciary committee, making her the first woman to address a congressional committee.
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