What a wild and crazy ride this has been, but we are back with the third and final installment in our Victoria Woodhull episode. Vicky CW had already been the first woman to speak in front of congress and the first female stock broker, so she thought she’d just keep running with this #FIRST energy and throw her hat in the ring for US President!
Side note: she was not old enough to run for president, so it is contested if she was legally the first woman to actually run for president, but whatever.
Victoria went on to appoint famous smart man, and recently freed enslaved person, Frederick Douglas her running mate. One small problem… he did not know her, sooooooo….
“I don’t know her”
— Frederick Douglas, probably.
Vicky was, of course, torn apart by the press and given the pretty punk rock name of Mrs. Satan, which I understand was meant to be a diss.
Anyway, instead of celebrating election day as the first woman to run for president and all the fanfare that should follow, she instead found herself in jail….what, what?
That’s right! But you’ll have to listen to the episode to find out why and who that fucking guy that put her there was.
Honestly, there’s just too much to properly recap here. Rags to riches to rags to riches to rags TO RICHES again! Vicky was not perfect, but she was also never boring.
Cheers, bitches!
- The History Chicks have an excellent episode on Vicky.
- Woodhull Rising is an incredible site dedicated to Victoria Woodhull and offers a directory more or less, in case you need help remembering who is who in this crazy family.
- Nicole Evelina‘s page has some great and detailed articles on her life. I specifically found her articles on Canning the most helpful.
- Newspaper clipping from the gallery above from here.
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Intro music by J Sparks Featuring Beyond Belief.
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