Who was the first American woman to run for president?

Until 1920 most women in America weren't able even to vote. But the first woman ran for president almost 50 years before the 19th amendment, which granted American women the right to vote.

Victoria Woodhull, a native of Ohio, broke ground for many women in 1872 by running as the Equal Rights Party candidate in the presidential elections. Woodhull called for suffrage for women, an 8-hour workday and for a moratorium on capital punishment. Woodhull left her important mark in the women's history of all time.