'A New Constitution for the United States of the World' proposal   Save
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Description: Printed in 1872, this pamphlet titled "A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed by Victoria C. Woodhull for the Consideration of the Constructors of our Future Government, " provides insight into the political ideas of women's rights activist Victoria C. Woodhull, such as equal rights for women, progressive taxation, and limits on corporate profits and public ownership of railroads. Woodhull was born in Homer, Ohio, in Licking County, and began her career as a healer selling homemade medicines and telling fortunes. After she and her sister Tennessee Claflin moved to New York City, they started Woodull, Claflin, & Company, financed by Cornelius Vanderbilt. Woodhull became the first woman to run a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street. Woodhull and Claflin also began their own magazine-- "Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly"--which championed women's rights and free love. However, Woodhull is most famously remembered as the first woman to run for President of the United States. With Frederick Douglass as her running partner for the Equal Rights Party, Woodhull lost the 1872 election to Ulysses S. Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: PA340_34_01
Subjects: Homer (Ohio); Women; Presidential candidates; Presidential elections; Activists; Suffragists
Places: New York (New York)