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November 12, 2018
Portrait of American feminist reformer Victoria Claflin Woodhull (1838 – 1927), the first woman to run for US president from a nationally recognized ticket as the candidate of the Equal Rights Party in 1872, 1870s. Claflin Woodhull, along with her sister, Tennessee Claflin, was also one of the first female stock brokers on Wall Street as the cofounder of the brokerage firm Woodhull, Claflin & Company in 1870. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)