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Woodhull could be described as a radical -- she was the first woman to
run for President of the United States, after all. But that's not even
the most interesting part of her story. Woodhull ran
for office in 1872, almost 50 years before the 1920
ratification of the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.
Woodhull's father was a snake oil salesman, and she herself was a
medical clairvoyant. She also began the first female-run stock brokerage
on Wall Street and the first female-run newspaper. When it came to her
presidential campaign, Woodhull was less than successful. Even if she
had been allowed to vote in the election, she wouldn't have been able
to: Woodhull was in jail on election night. She wrote an article
exposing the affair of a well-known preacher, and was arrested on a
count of obscenity.
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