Victoria Woodhull, the first female presidential candidate in 1872, advocated for women’s equality but was criticized for her sexual views. She published an exposé on a critic and was arrested for mailing pornographic material. She later lived in England until her death in 1927.
The first female presidential candidate was Victoria Woodhull of the Equal Rights Party in 1872, before women had the right to vote in the United States. Woodhull was an outspoken advocate for women’s equality and was much criticized for her openness about her sexual views and behaviors. As the owner of the politically liberal magazine Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, she published an exposé detailing the extramarital affairs of one of her most vocal critics, the preacher Henry Ward Beecher. Woodhull was then arrested on charges of mailing pornographic material and was in jail on Election Day 1872, when the election was won by Ulysses S. Grant.
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Woodhull traveled the country as a child and performed as a fortune teller.
In 1869, Woodhull and her sister became the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street.
Woodhull left the United States in 1877 and spent the last half of his life living in England until his death in 1927.
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