Hillary says she is the first woman nominated by a major party for U.S. president. Some news sources leave out some important words and say things which are completely false:
One hundred and nine nominees have been selected by their party to run for the nation’s highest office. And each and every one of them had been a man.
But Hillary is correct, this is a historic milestone. But there are some things left out that make the whole “first woman…” a lot more interesting.
What other women have run for U.S. president? WomensHistory.about.com has the answers (I don’t include all of them, some were publicity stunts and other unserious attempts). I have also included some from Wikipedia:
Victoria Woodhull
Equal Rights Party: 1872
Humanitarian Party: 1892
Belva Lockwood
National Equal Rights Party: 1884, 1888
Laura Clay
Democratic Party, 1920
Like many Southern suffragists she saw women’s suffrage as reinforcing white supremacy and power.Margaret Chase Smith
Republican Party: 1964
She was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination, but not nominated, for president at a major political party’s convention. She received 227,007 votes in the Republican Primary and won 27 delegates at the 1964 Republican Convention losing out to Barry Goldwater.Fay T. Carpenter Swain
Democratic Party: 1964
7,140 votes in Indiana primary losing out to Lyndon B. Johnson.Charlene Mitchell
Communist Party: 1968
She was also the first African American woman nominated for president in the United States.Shirley Chisholm
Democratic Party: 1972
Placed in nomination, but not nominated. One of three women to seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972 along with Mink and Abzug.Patsy Takemoto Mink
Democratic Party: 1972
She was the first Asian American to seek nomination as president by a major political party and one of three in 1972 along with Chisholm and Abzug.Bella Abzug
Democratic Party: 1972
One of three women to seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1972 along with Chisholm and Mink.
Linda Osteen Jenness
Socialist Workers Party: 1972
Evelyn Reed
Socialist Workers Party: 1972In states where SWP candidate Linda Jenness was not accepted for the ballot because she was under the Constitutional age for qualifying for the presidency, Evelyn Reed ran in her place.
Ellen McCormack
Democratic Party: 1976; Right to Life Party: 1980
McCormack ran against legalized abortion and won 238,000 votes in 18 primaries in the Democratic campaign, winning 22 delegates in 5 states.
Deidre Griswold
Workers World Party: 1980
Maureen Smith
Peace and Freedom Party: 1980
Sonia Johnson
Citizens Party: 1984
Gavrielle Holmes
Workers World Party: 1984
Isabelle Masters
Looking Back Party, etc.: 1984, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004
Patricia Schroeder
Democratic Party: 1988
Lenora Fulani
American New Alliance Party: 1988, 1992
Willa Kenoyer
Socialist Party: 1988
Gloria E. LaRiva
Workers World Party / Party for Socialism and Liberation: 1992
Helen Halyard
Worker’s League: 1992
Millie Howard
Republican: 1992, 1996; Independent: 2000; Republican: 2004, 2008
Monica Moorehead
Workers World Party: 1996, 2000
Marsha Feinland
Peace and Freedom Party: 1996
Mary Cal Hollis
Socialist Party: 1996
Heather Anne Harder
Democratic Party: 1996
Elvena E. Lloyd-Duffie
Democratic Party: 1996
Georgina H. Doerschuck
Republican Party: 1996
Susan Gail Ducey
Republican Party: 1996
Ann Jennings
Republican Party: 1996
Diane Beall Templin
American Party: 1996
Joanne Jorgensen
Libertarian Party: 1996
She did get the VP nomination, with Harry Browne getting the Presidential nomination of the party.Elizabeth Dole
Republican Party: 2000
Cathy Gordon Brown
Independent: 2000
Monica Moorehead
Workers World Party: 2000Carol Moseley Braun
Democratic Party: 2004
Diane Beall Templin
The American Party: 2004Hillary Rodham Clinton
Democratic Party: 2008
Cynthia McKinney
Green Party: 2008
Gloria La Riva
Party for Socialism and Liberation: 2008Michele Bachmann
Republican, 2012
Peta Lindsay
Party for Socialism and Liberation, 2012
Jill Stein
Green Party, 2012
Roseanne Barr
Peace and Freedom Party, 2012
Hillary Clinton
Democratic Party: 2012, 2016
One of the things I found interesting was that while there was a white supremacist Democrat in 1920 running for president it was a Republican woman who “was the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president at a major political party’s convention.”
The other thing I found interesting was that so many of the women were/are socialists and communists. Of course these days the Democratic Party has taken essentially all of the Socialist and Communists party platforms so Clinton is just as comfortable as a Democratic as she would have been with so many of the others who ran on other tickets in the past.
Females appear to be wired for socialism, or at least have strong biological drives toward security and family/group support. This, of course, is directed toward the raising of children (do it for the children!). I suspect that this condition is why the Founders did not consider women voting to be a good thing, as they will always steer things in a direction that is ultimately bad for society.
Mildly plausible, but possibly rife with assumption. For one thing, we’ve had at least a full hundred years of public victim-status-mongering for women, and that can’t but influence things. It’s gotten to the point where you can’t disagree with certain women without being accused of fearing or at least not knowing how to deal with “strong women”, the definition of which, by observation of common usage I have determined, is “ignorant bitches”.
Supporting evidence is that the self-described “strong woman” is almost invariably the one who wants government to take care of her and make her feel safe and comfortable in a cocoon devoid of desagreement or challenge, as opposed to wanting the freedom to take care of herself and her own.
You’re just showing your white male privilege….
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A cocoon devoid of responsibility, too.
“I am a proud, early twentieth century Progressive.” HRC
Polite Correction: “Losing”, not “Loosing”
Please don’t think me a jerk, but that just bangs my OCD. It happens to me, too. Auto-correct is not always my friend.
Fixed. Thank you. I really appreciate the corrections.