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Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the daughter of a snake oil salesman in rural Ohio, a traveling clairvoyant, married thrice, the first woman (with her sister) to be a stock broker, the creator of the first weekly newspaper run by women, the first woman to testify before a congressional committee, AND the first woman to run for US president. Did we mention she was only 34, and it would take 50 more years before (white) women were allowed to vote? And yet…have you heard of her?

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