Actually, women have been running for president since the 1870s and 1880s. One of the first was Victoria Woodhull, and another was Belva Lockwood. Since women could not vote yet, neither received many votes-- male voters did not take either candidate very seriously; but both women raised important issues and persisted in trying to win the public to their side.
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Victoria Claflin Woodhullis best known as the first woman candidate for the United States presidency.
The Equal Rights Party, in 1872, selected Victoria Woodhull as their candidate to run for President of the US, even though women did not even have the right to vote yet. Fifteen hundred men and women nominated Woodhull by acclamation.
The body called the Electoral College officially designates who will be the US President inaugurated in January following the previous results of the November elections.
No woman has ever been nominated for US president yet. Margarette Chase Smith senator from Maine in 1964