Victoria Woodhull

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2016

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Victoria Woodhull crafted a life for herself from pretty raw materials. She traveled from an abusive childhood to a very aristocratic end... and in the middle, was the first woman to run for the American Presidency. In 1872. She was a woman ahead of her time. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.
0:07.0	And here's your 30-second summary!
0:11.0	Victoria Woodhole went from rags to riches to rags to riches to rags to riches to rags and smash glass ceilings as she went from Wall Street to the publishing world to the very steps of the White House.
0:24.0	She was the first woman to run for the American presidency in 1872.
0:30.0	Let's talk about Victoria Woodhole!
0:33.0	But first let's drop her into history.
0:36.0	In 1872 it was a big year for patents on products that we still use today, including fire extinguishers, gasoline-powered engines, dried milk, the donut cutter and the calculator.
0:50.0	The first black U.S. governor took office for a whopping 36 days, but in Louisiana, trade unions were legalized in Canada.
0:59.0	Susan B. Anthony voted for Ulysses S. Grant in a presidential election and then was famously arrested for that vote.
1:07.0	Ulysses S. Grant was elected president even without it.
1:12.0	Paul Langevann, Zane Gray, Alexander Romanov, Calvin Coolidge and Emily Post were born and on election day 1872 U.S. voters could vote for the first female candidate for president, Victoria Woodhole.
1:28.0	And now it's time for a quick disclaimer.
1:31.0	If you're planning to listen to this with young people of pretty much any age, I would give it a listen ahead of time first.
1:38.0	Certainly not explicit in any way, there are definitely inevitably with this subject unavoidable mentions of sex, unsavory behavior and quite a bit of scandal.
1:48.0	So just give it a listen first and you can decide for yourself, we're gonna leave that up to you.
1:53.0	And now on with the show!
1:55.0	Victoria, California, Klaflin was born on September 23rd, 1838, the 7th of the 10 children of Ruben Buckman Klaflin and Roxanna Homo Klaflin in Homer, Ohio.
2:07.0	Victoria, named after Queen Victoria of England, who had been crowned that year.
2:13.0	See episodes 11 and 12 of the History Chicks podcast for more on Queen Victoria.
2:18.0	Well, Mama, Roxanna, variously known in books as either Roxy or Annie, I think Mama never had a chance.
2:25.0	No one really knew who her parents were except for vicious rumor and guesswork.
2:30.0	There are two schools of thought here, so I'm just gonna say them both in order.
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