3. The First Woman to Run for President: Rags to Riches (Ep 1)

Journey Through Time

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🗓️ 27 March 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The American public is outraged by the announcement of a woman running for president. The year is 1872 and the candidate is Victoria Woodhull. Victoria Woodhull’s fascinating life started in a rural frontier town in Ohio. By age twelve she had become her family’s main breadwinner, working as a travelling spiritual medium and faith healer. Her eccentric yet poor beginnings provided no clues that she would end up the first woman to run for president of the United States. After a marriage breakdown, Victoria used her spiritual healing and beguiling charm to ascend the social ladder of America’s gilded age high society. And, on the way, she found time to become the first woman to open a brokerage on Wall Street. Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga on Journey Through Time as we delve into the extraordinary and controversial story of Victoria Woodhull, the "future president” , and explore how her groundbreaking, and some might say unbelievable, bid for the White House reverberated through the fight for equality in America. To find out more about Find My Past visit: https://www.findmypast.co.uk/journey-through-time Email: journeythroughtime@goalhanger.com X: @ThroughTimePod Blue Sky: @ThroughTimePod Instagram: @ThroughTimePod Assistant Producer: Alice Horrell Producer: Callum Hill Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.3	Victoria C. Woodhull, nominated for the presidency. Who next? The following ridiculous scene is reported to have occurred at the
0:57.0	woman suffrage meeting in East New York last Friday. Judge Carter of Ohio said the banner of
1:04.1	equal rights now requires a standard bearer. He knew of no one who was so well entitled to the honour as Victoria C. Woodhull, who had so
1:14.3	nobly championed their cause. He therefore moved that Victoria C. Woodhull be nominated by acclamation
1:21.0	for the presidency of the United States. Woodhull thanked the meeting for the honour they had conferred
1:27.0	upon her and closed by promising to merit their confidence. Moseshull thanked the meeting for the honour they had conferred upon her and closed by promising
1:28.7	to merit their confidence. Moses Hull congratulated the meeting upon their selection and nominated
1:35.1	that true friend of human liberty, Frederick Douglass, for the vice presidency. Another indignant auditor,
1:42.6	who appeared intensely disgusted at the turn affairs had taken,
1:47.2	shouted, I move, we nominate spotted tail for vice president, as the Indians had possession of this
1:53.2	country before the Negroes. Shrieks of laughter followed. Welcome to Journey Through Time. I'm David
2:00.2	Aldoushoga. And I'm Sarah Churchwell. And that
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