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Equal Rights Party nominates Woodhull for president; no woman has stood here before
The Wall Street broker and newspaper publisher accepts the nomination at Apollo Hall in New York City, the daughter of an Ohio con man now a candidate for the nation's highest office.
At Apollo Hall in New York City on May 10, 1872, the newly formed Equal Rights Party nominated Victoria Woodhull for president — the first woman in American history to receive a major party's presidential nomination. The daughter of an Ohio con man and arsonist, Woodhull had already broken barriers as Wall Street's first female stockbroker and the publisher of a nationally circulating newspaper. Her campaign ended not at the ballot box but at the Ludlow Street Jail, where federal marshals arrested her on obscenity charges three days before the election…
