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Victoria Claflin Woodhull (born Victoria California Claflin; September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), 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.
Jul 20, 2016 · More than a century before Hillary Clinton, ‘Notorious Victoria’ Woodhull made a bid for the White House – a pioneering protest for which she was called ‘Mrs Satan’ and sent to jail. by ...
Nov 7, 2022 · One hundred fifty years ago, Victoria Woodhull did something no woman had done before. Woodhull was a clairvoyant, a businesswoman, an advocate of sexual freedom and a magnet for media...
- Joe Richman
The first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street, Victoria Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism, and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist, and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time.
Jun 5, 2024 · Victoria Woodhull, unconventional American reformer, who at various times championed such diverse causes as women’s suffrage, free love, mystical socialism, and the Greenback movement. She was also the first woman to run for the U.S. presidency (1872).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Victoria Woodhull, née Victoria Claflin, (born Sept. 23, 1838, Homer, Ohio, U.S.—died June 9, 1927, Bredon’s Norton, Worcestershire, Eng.), unconventional American reformer, who at various times championed such diverse causes as women’s suffrage, free love, mystical socialism, and the Greenback movement. She was also the first woman to ...
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In the early 1870s, Victoria started Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly— a newspaper centered on Free Love, women’s suffrage, and political reform. Woodhull’s most important achievement in politics was undoubtedly her presidential candidacy in the 1872 election.
