woodhull in A Sentence

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    Woodhull Mountain is located northeast of Red Hill.

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    Victoria Claflin Woodhull.

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    When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she was depicted as“Mrs. Satan” in a political cartoon.

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    Victoria Woodhull(1872), Margaret Chase Smith(1964) and Shirley Chisholm(1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates.

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    Ultimately they turned on her, with Susan B Anthony publicly describing Woodhull and her sister as“lewd and indecent”.

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    Woodhull began life as Victoria Claflin in 1838 as the seventh of ten children born to Roxanna and Reuben Claflin.

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    But in response to Satan/Woodhull's seeming encouragement of the woman to divorce her husband, the woman states,“Get thee behind me,(Mrs.)!

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    One month later, Woodhull would be released from jail and five months after that, she would be cleared of all charges.

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    Given the provocative nature of her publication and her eloquent and compelling writing and speaking style, Woodhull quickly gained quite a following.

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    Although women could not yet vote, Woodhull boldly staked her claim to the White House, believing she might thereby advance women's equality.

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    There are other noted precursors to the historical presidential candidacy of Hillary Clinton, but there's only one first female presidential candidate and that was Victoria Woodhull.

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    Now although I believe Mrs. Woodhull to be a grand woman, I should be glad to have her work for her own enfranchisement if she were not.

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    The sister's financial success in investing was enough that only a few months after they started their company, they were able to found Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly newspaper.

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    Harriet Beecher Stowe likewise, besides directly denouncing Woodhull, calling her an“impudent witch” and a“vile jailbird,” even took shots at her in one of her works, My Wife and I,

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    With her star rising, Woodhull created the Equal Rights Party, which subsequently nominated her as their presidential candidate in May of 1872 and then ratified her nomination in June.

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    Running on a platform of women's rights and“free love”(meaning woman had the right to love- and not love- whoever they wished), Woodhull traveled the country speaking to increasingly large crowds.

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    Nearly a half century before this Constitutional amendment was ratified on August 18, 1920, activist Victoria Claflin Woodhull decided to run for the“nation's highest office”, announcing her candidacy on April 2, 1871.

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    That said, Woodhull herself would long claim to be a monogamist, though we might today call her a serial monogamist, and indeed advocated for monogamy in many of her writings and speeches.

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    As for the aftermath of the election, the controversy not only negatively impacted Woodhull's social life, resulting in her family being continually harassed, but also put a damper on her financial situation.

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    Despite her fame, Woodhull did not garner any electoral votes in 1872(as for the popular vote, they didn't count the votes for her, of which we know there were at least some).

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    If all“they say” is true, Mrs. Woodhull is better than nine tenths of our Fathers, Husbands, sons, and woman's purity amounts to little in the regeneration of the race as long as man is vile.

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    While Beecher Stowe would become an enemy of Woodhull's over the exposé on Stowe's brother, Beecher's other sister, Isabella, was an ardent supporter of Woodhull, including Woodhull's condemnation of her brother's hypocrisy concerning his affairs.

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    Of course, on Election Day 1872, Victoria Woodhull couldn't even vote for herself, and in fact ended up spending the day in jail- see: Equal Rights and Free Love- The Remarkable Story of the First Female U.S. Presidential Candidate.

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    However, it was Woodhull's thoughts on“free love,” particularly that a woman should be allowed to divorce a man, if she so chooses, and sleep with who she wants, that saw Beecher likening her to the devil and railing against her from the pulpit.

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    This was an organization she would always been something of an outsider in anyway, given many of the other leaders of said organization tended to be upper-middle-class to wealthy, well-educated women, while Woodhull was a formerly impoverished spiritualist and snake-oil salesman with little formal education.

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    Woodhull would also use the Weekly for furthering her own candidacy for the office of United States President, though she made her intentions known for such a presidential run in a letter published not in her Weekly, but in the New York Herald on April 2, 1871.

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    Thus, on the day of voting for the individuals who will in turn actually vote for the president(again, the general public does not vote for the president on Election Day, but for a group of electors, nor is the president elected until much later, contrary to popular belief), Woodhull, Tennessee, and Colonel Blood found themselves sitting in a cell in the Ludlow Street Jail.

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