The woman who ran for president 50 years before she could vote
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For Women's History Month, I wanted to highlight Victoria Woodhull, who wrote a letter to the New York Herald in 1870 announcing that she was running for president. At the time, women were not allowed to vote, but there were no laws against launching a presidential campaign — perhaps because no one could have imagined that a woman ever would.
Woodhull was a passionate suffragist who has mostly been forgotten by history. The suffragists of her time kept their distance because she had other "scandalous" views they didn't want to tarnish their cause. She was also a divorced woman with a controversial past, as a Spiritualist clairvoyant and the daughter of a conman who had roped his family into numerous criminal schemes.
However, as someone who went from uneducated bumpkin to one of the richest and most controversial people of her era, and someone who was not afraid to take action against injustices, and who went from riches back to rags in order to promote her ideas for a better nation, she ought to stand amongst the most iconic Americans in history.
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This is an illustrated article from NPR and I'm too lazy for all the copy/paste required. NPR is free so just go to the link.
I remember reading about her
girl power ...
better communicators, better multi-taskers, better at compromising, and better administrators ...
I'm living vicariously thru my adult daughter and coaching her in office politics. after a year at her job, she is now a corporate animal feared by the maga blue collar types she holds dominion over. she's working on her 3rd forced early retirement in the good old boys club, and because of his 20 year past of no accomplishments, no bid schemes and kickbacks, a complete lack of mobility by not doing his job, and dedicating 4.5 hours a day of grazing on company time, he's probably going to leave the office feet first ...
I had forgotten. Very inspiring and (too bad to say) ahead of her time by many years.