Springs, a suffrage leader in South Carolina, became active in Democratic Party politics after the 19 th amendment passed in 1920. The two women campaigned seriously and, out of some 10 million votes, won almost 5,000-cast by men. Lockwood caught Stow’s attention when she pointed out that, while women couldn’t vote, “there is no law against their being voted for.” Stow named herself the vice-presidential candidate, the first woman to run for the office in the United States. In 1884, Stow, a California newspaper owner, nominated Belva Lockwood, a lawyer, to run for president as the candidate of the hastily created National Equal Rights Party, one of several 19 th-century political parties with that name. Photograph by Historic Images, Alamy Marietta Stow Marietta Stow became the first woman to run for vice president when she ran with Belva Lockwood in 1884. Meet some of the women who contended for the second highest job in the land despite the odds. Some ran to highlight issues, some ran to prove a point, and some were recruited to energize a male candidate’s flailing campaign.
Many of the earlier candidates belonged to third parties. (There may be more: CAWP’s list only includes candidates who were historic firsts, won at least 1 percent of the popular vote, or received 100 votes or more at a major party nominating convention.) According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University (CAWP), at least 11 other women have previously vied to be vice president, including more than one Black woman and one Asian-American woman. While Woodhull didn’t make a concerted effort to get elected, Harris is the most recent of a long line of women who did. Despite her notoriety, there’s no record that anyone cast their ballot for her. (Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was listed as the vice presidential candidate, but he hadn’t been asked to join the ticket and never acknowledged the campaign.) On election day, Woodhull was in jail on obscenity charges for publishing details about a religious leader’s affair in her newspaper. It’s not clear she actually campaigned, and at 33 she could not legally have been president. Suffragist and New York newspaper publisher Victoria Woodhull, who along with her sister was also the first female Wall Street stockbroker, became the first woman to run for president in 1872 when she was nominated by the newly formed Equal Rights Party. ( Find out why, a century after women’s suffrage, the fight for equality isn’t over.) Women have been aiming for higher office since long before they could vote. Harris is hardly the first woman to run for the office, though. One hundred years after American women won the right to vote-a right mostly limited to white women at first-Kamala Harris has become the first woman (and the first Black and Asian American) elected vice president of the United States.
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