On this day....Victoria Woodhull

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Victoria Claflin Woodhull was one of the 19th century’s most colorful characters. She was a women’s rights and suffrage advocate, a popular public speaker, a newspaper publisher who introduced American audiences to the works of Karl Marx, the first woman to operate a Wall Street brokerage firm, and the first female presidential candidate in 1872.

https://www.nps.gov/articles/the-first-woman-to-run-for-president-victoria-woodhull.htm