query: who was the first woman that ran for president

pos: Victoria Woodhull Victoria Woodhull Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. In 1872, she ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality of her run. They disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because she was younger than the constitutionally mandated age of 35. However, election coverage by contemporary newspapers does not suggest age was a

pos: Victoria Woodhull opera "Mrs. President" about Woodhull. It premiered in 2012 in Anchorage, Alaska. In March 2017, Amazon Studios announced production of a movie based on her life, produced by and starring Brie Larson as Victoria Woodhull. Victoria Woodhull Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin (September 23, 1838 – June 9, 1927), was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement. In 1872, she ran for President of the United States. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some have questioned that priority given issues with the legality

neg: Marguerite L. Smith was the first woman to serve a second term in the Assembly; and the first woman to chair a standing committee of the Assembly. In November 1921, she ran again for re-election, but was defeated by Democrat James Male who had been endorsed by the Citizens Union. She had also incurred the wrath of the President of the Women's Trade Union League Rose Schneiderman who said that Smith was "a machine politician, and an enemy to working women." In 1931, she married Anthony Conrad Eiser. She died in September 1985 in Thetford Center, Orange County, Vermont. Marguerite L. Smith Marguerite

neg: Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential campaign votes to Clinton's 232. In the nationwide popular vote, Clinton received over 2.8 million (2.1%) more votes than Trump. This is the widest-ever lead in the popular vote for a candidate who lost the election. It also makes Clinton the first woman to win the popular vote in an election for United States president. After a loss that was widely perceived as a surprise, critics alleged that the Clinton team ran an ineffective campaign. Political scientists John Sides, Michael Tesler and Lynn Vavreck dispute the common criticism that Clinton ran an inept campaign, saying that this is a "myth" and

neg: Edith Nawakwi Edith Nawakwi Edith Zewelani Nawakwi (born ) is a Zambian politician and economist by profession. She is the first woman in Zambia to hold the post of Minister of Finance following her appointment in 1998 since Zambia's independence 33 years previously to that time. She was also the first woman to hold that post in the SADC region.She is the President of the Forum for Democracy and Development under which she ran for president at the 2016 general election. Nawakwi was born in Mwenzo, Northern Province of Zambia. She holds a degree in Agriculture Economics and Business Management from the

neg: Sharon Weston Broome Sharon Weston Broome Sharon Weston Broome (born October 1, 1956) is the Mayor-President of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the second African-American to fill the position. A Democrat, she was the first person of her race to be elected to the Louisiana State Senate. She held the District 15 seat from 2005 to 2016. She was elected mayor-president in a runoff election held on December 10, 2016. Broome is the first African-American woman to serve as mayor-president. She was preceded as both mayor-president and state senator by her fellow African-American Democrat Kip Holden, who in 2016 ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in

neg: Inonge Wina elected President Edgar Lungu appointed Wina as Vice President of Zambia. She ran on Lungu's ticket in the 2016 election, becoming the first woman elected as Vice President. She was married to Arthur Wina, an independence fighter, former minister and academic who died on 3 September 1995. Arthur Wina was educated at Munali Secondary School which, in colonial times, was Zambia's principal secondary school for native Zambians. A number of the members of Zambia's first post-Independence cabinet, (including Arthur Wina's brother Sikota), were also educated at Munali. Inonge Wina Inonge Mutukwa Wina (born April 2, 1941) is a Zambian politician

neg: Epsy Campbell Barr Epsy Campbell Barr Epsy Campbell Barr (born 4 July 1963 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican politician and economist who has been the First Vice-President of Costa Rica since 8 May 2018. She is Costa Rica’s first woman of African descent to become vice president, and the second female vice president of African descent in the Americas following Viola Burnham. One of the Founders of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), she ran for president in 2010 and 2014, and is currently serving as a deputy in the Legislative Assembly. Epsy Campbell Barr was born in San José

neg: Epsy Campbell Barr Quesada eventually advanced to the runoff and won, with Campbell becoming the first Afrodescendant vice-president of the country. Epsy Campbell Barr Epsy Campbell Barr (born 4 July 1963 in San José, Costa Rica) is a Costa Rican politician and economist who has been the First Vice-President of Costa Rica since 8 May 2018. She is Costa Rica’s first woman of African descent to become vice president, and the second female vice president of African descent in the Americas following Viola Burnham. One of the Founders of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC), she ran for president in 2010 and 2014, and

neg: Nancy Patricia Gutiérrez to finish Pomárico's term as President of the Chamber of the Representatives of Colombia, and became on March 30, 2000 the first woman to ever serve as President of the Chamber in the history of Colombia. Although her short presidency ended on July 20, 2000, she terminated the programs her predecessor was accused of, like foreign trips, gasoline allowances for the transportation of congress members, and the payroll discrepancies that so infuriated the public. In 2002 Gutiérrez Castañeda was re-elected representing the Colombia Always movement supporting once again Leonor Serrano who ran for a seat in the Senate. In 2004

neg: Cathy Woolard Cathy Woolard Cathy Woolard (born May 10, 1957) is an American politician who most recently ran for Mayor of Atlanta in 2017. She served on the Atlanta City Council for District 6 from November 1998 to 2002, and served as President of the Council from 2002 to 2004, being succeeded by Lisa Borders. When she began her term in 1997, she was the first openly gay elected official in Georgia history, and she was the first woman to be President of the Council. In 1979, Cathy Woolard graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Georgia, where she majored in

neg: María Libertad Gómez Garriga and civil rights, and was pro-independence. For one month in 1945, during a time of transition, she was President of the House, the first woman to hold that position. She was re-elected to her seat three times, and won her last election to the House of Representatives in 1952. She was the only woman in the Constitutional Convention of Puerto Rico, formed in 1951, and the only woman to sign the 1952 Constitution. She ran unsuccessfully for the Senate of Puerto Rico in 1956, and resigned her positions in the Popular Democratic party after that. Gómez died in 1961, aged

neg: Edith Nawakwi before she was elected party president in 2005, making her the first woman in Zambia to achieve such feat. In 2011, under the platform of the Forum for Democracy and Development, she was the only woman who contested in the 2011 general election, placing seventh on the log with a total of 6,833 votes. She also contested in the 2015 presidential election, placing third with a vote percentage of 0.92%. In 2016, she ran for the presidency at the 2016 general election where she placed third, receiving a total of 24,149 votes. She is married to Geofrey Hambulo with whom

neg: Ligue de Football Professionnel football in general. Since the LFP's foundation, there have been a total of nine presidents who have served. The first president of the league was Emmanuel Gambardella who ran the organization from 1944–1953. His positive influence on French football led to the French Football Federation naming the country's prestigious under-19 youth cup tournament after him. The current president is Nathalie Boy de la Tour who was elected in 2016, becoming the first woman to take the role. 0785540665 Ligue de Football Professionnel The Ligue de Football Professionnel (, "Professional Football League"), commonly known as the LFP, is a French governing

neg: Yeidckol Polevnsky 2002 as first woman president. In 2005 she was nominated by the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) as the candidate for governor for the 2005 State of Mexico election. She lost to Enrique Peña Nieto of the PRI, who would later on become President of Mexico in 2012. In the 2006 general election she supported the presidential campaign of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and was elected to the Senate, representing the State of Mexico. In 2014, she resigned from the PRD and joined the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA) and ran as a mayoral candidate for Naucalpan, State of Mexico

neg: Louise Day Hicks engaged in incidents of massive resistance to school desegregation. In 1976, Hicks was elected the first woman president of the Boston City Council, largely on the strength of ROAR, which was then at its peak. During this time Hicks supported another controversial position, a curfew for minors in the city of Boston. Hicks opposed George Wallace of Alabama, who ran for U.S. President on four occasions: "He's a segregationist. I don't want to be connected to him." Hicks continued, "While a large part of my vote probably does come from bigoted people. ... I know I'm not bigoted. To me

neg: Peace and Freedom Party party, the first woman to hold this position in any of the ballot qualified parties in the state. Hudiburgh also ran twice for the state assembly in this time period. The California party became part of the coalition making up the national left-wing People's Party. For 1972, the People's Party nominated the feminist and democratic socialist, the noted anti-war activist Benjamin Spock for President along with Julius Hobson of the D.C. Statehood Party for Vice President. In 1976, the party nominated Margaret Wright as its first woman contender for President. Wright lived in the Watts section of Los Angeles and

neg: Marie Charette-Poulin caucus, and the first senator to chair the Northern Ontario Liberal caucus. Charette-Poulin ran for the presidency of the party at the party's leadership convention in 2006. She defeated former MP Tony Ianno and party activist Bobbi Ethier to win the election. She was the second woman and first francophone woman to hold this position. Charette-Poulin suffered a mild stroke in April 2008. Although she was expected to make a full recovery, she said that she would be stepping down immediately as Liberal Party President, saying that she now tires easily and was unable to put in the 40 or

neg: Wellesley College ran out into the road and raised their arms to form a tunnel. Diana Chapman Walsh, who would later serve as Wellesley president from 1993 to 2007 was present for the 1966 race. “The word spread to all of us lining the route that a woman was running the course. We scanned face after face in breathless anticipation until a ripple of recognition shot through the lines and we cheered as we never had before. We let out a roar that day, sensing that this woman had done more than just break the gender barrier in a famous race.” Once

neg: Louise Holland Coe right to control their property. Coe was elected by her peers as the Senate president pro tempore from 1929 to the end of her term, the nation's first woman president pro tempore in any senate. Coe attended the University of New Mexico and graduated in 1930 with a Bachelor of Science in Education with a minor in Spanish. While at university, she joined the women's fraternity Alpha Delta Pi. In 1940, Coe ran for a position in the United States House of Representatives and was the first Democratic woman to do so. However, she lost to Clinton Presba Anderson in

neg: Al Smith 1932 presidential campaign was the Democratic Party's vice-presidential nominee. In 2016, Tim Kaine was the Democratic nominee for vice president. Kaine and presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton (the first woman to be nominated for president by a major party) won the popular vote by nearly 3 million. However, they lost the electoral college. Al Smith 1932 presidential campaign Al Smith, former governor of New York and the 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, ran an unsuccessful campaign for the party's 1932 presidential nomination. He ultimately lost to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his one-time political ally (and gubernatorial successor), who would go on to win the general

neg: Margaret Sullivan (journalist) Margaret Sullivan (journalist) Margaret M. Sullivan is an American journalist who is the media columnist for "The Washington Post". She was the fifth public editor of "The New York Times" and the first woman to hold the position. In that role, she reported directly to Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. as the "readers' representative". She began her tenure on September 1, 2012, joining "The New York Times" from "The Buffalo News", where she had been editor and vice-president. Her first column in "The Washington Post" ran on May 22, 2016. Sullivan is a native of Lackawanna, New York and a graduate of

neg: Josephine Barnes medicine at University College London. When the Second World War started she was appointed to a post at the Samaritan Hospital. From 1947 she ran a mobile obstetric team from University College Hospital. Barnes was the first woman consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Charing Cross Hospital (1954) and the first woman President of the British Medical Association (1979–80). She was also Chairman of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital Appeal Trust, President of the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Obstetrics and Gynaecology (known since 1994 as the Association of Chartered Physiotherapists in Women's Health) from 1977 to 1995, and President of

neg: Belva Ann Lockwood Congress to be allowed to practice before the United States Supreme Court, becoming the first woman attorney given this privilege. Lockwood ran for president in 1884 and 1888 on the ticket of the National Equal Rights Party and was the first woman to appear on official ballots. She was born Belva Ann Bennett in Royalton, New York, daughter of Lewis Johnson Bennett, a farmer, and his wife Hannah Green. Her aunt's house where she spent some of her childhood still stands at 5070 Griswold Street. In front of this house is a memorial to her with a plaque that gives

neg: Linda Chavez Gay McDougall, released the final version of "Contemporary Forms of Slavery".) Chavez was the head of Governor George W. Bush's task force on immigration when he ran for president in 2000, and she later met with him on a number of occasions while he was president to discuss immigration reform. In 2001, President George W. Bush nominated Chavez for Secretary of Labor. She was the first Hispanic woman nominated to a United States cabinet position. However, she withdrew from consideration after it was revealed, through her neighbor Margaret "Peggy" Zwisler, that she had allegedly given money to Marta Mercado, a

neg: Audrey Patterson who competed in the 200-meter race in 1972, and Dennis Mitchell, who ran in the 100-meter dash in 1988, 1992 and 1996. She managed the U.S. women's track team that toured the Soviet Union and Germany in 1969 and coached the team that competed against a Russian squad in Texas in 1974. In 1982, she founded the Martin Luther King Freedom Run in San Diego. Patterson was named the Woman Athlete of the Year by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1949. She served as First Vice President of the Amateur Athletic Union, Director of the Pacific Southwest Association and the

neg: Matriarchy of use for the anthropological description of existing societies, it remains current as a concept in feminism. In first-wave feminist discourse, either Elizabeth Cady Stanton or Margaret Fuller (it is unclear who was first) introduced the concept of matriarchy and the discourse was joined in by Matilda Joslyn Gage. Victoria Woodhull, in 1871, called for men to open the U.S. government to women or a new constitution and government would be formed in a year; and, on a basis of equality, she ran to be elected President in 1872. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in 1911 and 1914, argued for "a woman-centered,

neg: Margarita Argúas first woman appointed to the Argentine National Academy of Law and Social Sciences and that same year was elected as the first woman to serve as president of the International Law Association. After serving her two year term as president, she later served as vice president from 1974 to 1975 and was the president of the Argentine chapter until her death. On 7 October 1970, Argúas was appointed by President Roberto M. Levingston to the Argentine Supreme Court, to fill the remaining term of , who had died in office. With her appointment, Argúas became the first Argentine woman to

neg: 2009 Boston City Council election of Boston; their seats were won by Felix G. Arroyo and Ayanna Pressley. Pressley's victory made her first woman of color to be elected to the council in its history. Councillor Salvatore LaMattina was re-elected. Councillor Bill Linehan ran unopposed. Councillor Maureen Feeney ran unopposed. Councillor Charles Yancey ran unopposed. Councillor Robert Consalvo ran unopposed. Councillor John M. Tobin, Jr. ran unopposed. In August 2010, Tobin resigned his seat to take a position as Vice President for City and Community Affairs at Northeastern University. The seat was filled via a special election on November 16, 2010, with the preliminary election

neg: Party of the Poor (Republic of the Congo) Party of the Poor (Republic of the Congo) The Party of the Poor () was a populist political party in the Republic of Congo. The Party of the Poor was founded in 1991, by the nun and politician Angèle Bandou, formerly a member of the "Rassemblement pour la Défense des Pauvres et des Chomeurs au Congo". As the first ever woman to do so in Congo-Brazzaville, she ran for president in the 1992 presidential election, receiving less than 1% of the popular vote. Bandou and the Party of the Poor ran again for president, in the 2002 presidential election. She

neg: Russell Means 2004 and 2008 Presidential Elections, Means supported independent Ralph Nader. Nearly thirty years after his first candidacy, Means ran for president of the Oglala Sioux in 2004 with the help of Twila Lebeaux, losing to Cecilia Fire Thunder, the first woman elected president of the tribe. She also defeated the incumbent John Yellow Bird Steele. Since the late 20th century, there has been a debate in the United States over the appropriate term for the indigenous peoples of North America. Some want to be called Native American; others prefer American Indian. Means said that he preferred "American Indian", arguing that

neg: Muslim women political leaders of 200 women who participated in the loya jirga. She ran for president in 2002, becoming the first woman to run for this position in Afghanistan. She won 171 votes (the second most ballots received) in the 2002 presidential election against Karzai. She lost the election to Hamid Karzai but served within his cabinet as the Women's Affairs Minister from 2004-2006. Jalal was later nominated to study in Washington, DC at the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA), which teaches women how to advance their leadership roles. One of 200 women who participated in the loya jirga after the

neg: Citizens Party (United States) Barry Commoner for President, and La Donna Harris (then, at that time, the wife of Democratic U.S. Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma) for Vice President. La Donna Harris was "a leading feminist and a Comanche Indian [who] labeled herself as 'a woman of color.'" In order to increase public awareness of its existence, the Citizens Party ran a commercial on 600 radio stations which used profanity (the advertisement began with an actor exclaiming: "Bullshit! ... Carter, Reagan and Anderson, it's all bullshit!"). Several of the radio stations tried to remove the profanity, but the Federal Communications Commission forbade them to

neg: Dorothy N. Dolbey Dorothy N. Dolbey Dorothy N. Nichols Dolbey (April 28, 1908 – February 12, 1991) was an American politician who served as Mayor of Cincinnati for six months in 1954, and was the first woman to serve in this position. Born in Cincinnati, Dolbey graduated from the University of Cincinnati and Columbia University with a degree in child psychology. After marrying James Dolbey 1935, she became a stay-at-home mother, raising two children, but also served as Cincinnati Council of Church Women United's president. In 1951, she first ran for city council, one of two women to do so, but failed to

neg: Shirley Chisholm also struggled to be regarded as a serious candidate instead of as a symbolic political figure; she was ignored by much of the Democratic political establishment and received little support from her black male colleagues. She later said, "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men." In particular, she expressed frustration about the "black matriarch thing", saying, "They think I am trying to take power from them. The black man must step forward, but that doesn't mean the black woman must step back."

neg: María Currea Manrique Colombian women won the right to vote and Currea and other suffrage workers immediately started a door to door campaign, registering women to vote. In the first election in which women were allowed to vote, in 1957, nearly two million women participated. Two years later Currea ran for office and was elected as first councilwoman of Bogatá. She was then elected as the first woman to serve as president of the council. She was honored as the 1960 "Woman of the Americas" by the Organization of American States. In 1969, she was elected as mayor of the town of Pacho.

neg: Jane Mathews The Commission covered topics as diverse as abortion, domestic violence, the police and courts’ treatment of rape victims and discrimination faced by gays and lesbians. The Commission ran from 1974 until 1977. Following which Mathews was appointed a Crown Prosecutor in 1977. Ruth McColl described Mathews as a multiple member of the club, being the first woman appointed a judge in NSW, first woman appointed to the Supreme Court of NSW and first woman President of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Mathews initial appointment as a judge was to the District Court of NSW in 1980, during which she was also

neg: Muhterem Aras the Green Party Group. Since 2014 Aras has been county chairman of the Stuttgart District Association of Alliance '90 / The Greens. In 2016 she ran again in Parliament constituency Stuttgart I, and won the mandate with 42.4 percent, again the nation's best result for her party. On May 11, 2016, Aras was elected with the votes of 96 MPs to the new Baden-Württemberg Landtag president, and was in Germany, the first member of the Greens, the first Muslim woman and was the first woman in Baden-Württemberg. Muhterem Aras has been married since 1986 and has a son and a

neg: Faanya Rose Faanya Rose Faanya Lydia (Arch) Rose (born July 9, 1938) is a British-American business woman, conservationist, philanthropist, and explorer. She was the first woman and the first British citizen elected president of The Explorers Club. At founding in 1904, the membership of the Explorer Club was “limited absolutely to men who [had] been in the open and the wild places of the earth.” Women were not admitted until 1981, and would wait nineteen years before being considered for president. Faanya said of her election she wanted, "Not to be the first woman president, but to be the first woman to

neg: Muslim Brotherhood in post-Mubarak electoral politics of Egypt who (wrongly) use religion to marginalize women socially and politically. One month after the revolution, Ziada and her colleagues ran a survey, asking 1453 people, including 634 women, whether it would be good for Egypt to have a woman president. The answer was negative in 100% of cases, typically accompanied by abusive comments. Ziada prays "that Morsi will prove her wrong" and help "to empower Egypt through empowering its women in their non-biological roles". "b."Naglaa Ali Mahmoud is President Morsi's wife. Her appearance and attitudes are indicative of the divisions between Egypt's westernized elite that has dominated the country in

neg: Aline Hanson Aline Hanson Aline Hanson (9 October 1949 – 29 June 2017) was a native of Saint Martin, who was noted as a teacher and then became the first woman elected president of the Collectivity of Saint Martin. Hanson began her career in education, working as a teacher, advisor to the French government on developing programs for disadvantaged children and principal of Sandy Ground Elementary School. She entered politics, simultaneously working as a teacher, in the mayoral office of Marigot. Serving on numerous island boards and government entities, in 2007 she ran for a seat on the Territorial Council and was

neg: Sekō Higa (1919-1975), Eiki Kurashita, Zensei Gushiken, Izumi and others that carried on the "Goju-ryu Kokusai Karate Kobudo Renmei". The Goju-ryu Kokusai Karate Kobudo Renmei ("Goju-ryu International Karate Kobudo Federation") is a tightly knit organization founded by Seko Higa and run with corporate efficiency with a president, vice-president, and secretary. Its first president was Seko Higa himself, who ran it from 1960 to 1966. The next president was Uemon Tetsuo, who ran it from 1966 to 1967; the third generation was Takamine Choboku, who held office from 1967 to 1989. Higa's son, Sekichi, was president in 1990. The fifth-generation president was Eiki

neg: Mary A. Monroe Mary A. Monroe Mary Ann Monroe (March 7, 1860 – September 11, 1953) was a prominent teacher and school administrator in Spokane, Washington, and an active figure in education across the state of Washington. She was the first woman to serve as president of the Washington Education Association and the first woman on the board of trustees at the State Normal School at Cheney. She ran unsuccessfully for the office of Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction in 1912, but was active in civic and state politics in the early 20th Century. Monroe was born on March 7, 1860 in Newark,

neg: Margherita Cogo re-elected in 1990 and then in 1993 was appointed as Mayor. Two years later, when mayoral races became elected positions, Cogo ran for the position and was elected. That same year, she became President of the Valli Giudicarie District Health Committee and in 1997 joined the Executive Council of the Consortium of Trentino Communes, dealing with culture and health issues of the area. During her terms as Mayor, she was particularly interested in infrastructure development. In 1998, she was elected as a member of the provincial assembly and in 1999 became the first woman President of the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Region.

neg: Brenda Burns in the Arizona Senate from 1995 to 2003, also serving as Senate President from 1997 to 2003. She was the first woman to ever serve in either leadership position. Burns ran for the Corporation Commission in 2010, for one of the two seats to which the top two finishers on the ballot are elected. In the Republican primary, she received 300,698 votes (36.89%), behind incumbent Commissioner Gary Pierce's 323,751 (39.72%) and ahead of former Commissioner Barry Wong's 190,576 (23.38%). Burns and Pierce supported each other and campaigned against the controversial Wong. Wong, who served temporarily on the Commission in 2006,

neg: Timeline of women's sports Francisco. 2015 – Tickets for the Women's Singles final of the 2015 US Open sell out faster than the Men's final, a first in tournament history. 2015 – Sarah Taylor, from England, became the first woman to play men's grade cricket in Australia, when she appeared as wicketkeeper for Northern Districts against Port Adelaide at Salisbury Oval in South Australia's premier men's competition. 2015 – Afghanistan held its first marathon; among those who ran the entire marathon was one woman, Zainab, age 25, who thus became the first Afghan woman to run in a marathon within her own country. 2015

neg: South Orange, New Jersey elected as Village President, making her the first woman to serve in the position, while Deborah Davis Ford, Howard Levison and Mark Rosner ran unopposed and won new terms of office on the Board of Trustees. In June 2015, Jeffrey DuBowy was appointed to fill balance of the term for the seat vacated by Sheena Collum expiring 2017 that became vacant after she took office as Village President. With three incumbents not running for re-election in the May 2013 election, the slate of Walter Clarke, Sheena Collum and Stephen Schnall running together as South Orange 2013 were elected to four-year

neg: Fatimatou Abdel Malick Fatimatou Abdel Malick Fatimatou Mint Abdel Malick (born 1958) is a Mauritanian politician who has served as mayor of Tevragh-Zeina since 2001. She was the first woman in her country to hold the position of mayor. From 2012–2015 she served as president of The Network for Locally Elected Women of Africa (REFELA). Abdel Malik was born in 1958 in Tamchakett, where her father was an administrator. She studied computer science in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Abdel Malik ran a computer services office, MINFE, in Nouakchott before working as the network administrator for Habitat Bank. She then worked at the Ministry of Urban

neg: Ellen McCormack Ellen McCormack Ellen Cullen McCormack (September 15, 1926 – March 27, 2011) was a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1976. McCormack was one of the first female candidates for president, alongside women like Shirley Chisholm. McCormack, generally identified during her 1976 campaign as a "housewife", appeared on the ballot in 18 states, more than any female candidate to that point (Republican or Democrat). She was also the first woman to raise enough money to qualify for federal matching funds and Secret Service protection. She ran on an exclusively pro-life platform and won no primaries, but had her

neg: Georgia Cozzini and Gina (born 1945). Cozzini was an active member of the Socialist Labor Party (SLP). She was the first woman to run for Governor of Wisconsin, heading the state SLP ticket in 1942. She ran for this office again in 1970 and 1974. Cozzini ran twice for the United States Senate in Wisconsin, appearing as part of the SLP slate in 1946 and again in 1958. Cozzini was twice the nominee of the SLP for Vice President of the United States, running in 1956 and 1960 on the ticket with Eric Hass, editor of the SLP's national newspaper, "The Weekly

neg: Gladys Strum Gladys Strum Gladys Grace Mae Strum (February 4, 1906 – August 15, 2005) was a Canadian politician. Born in Gladstone, Manitoba, she moved to Saskatchewan when she was 16 to teach. She ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan in 1938 and again in 1944. In 1944, she became president of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), the first woman to occupy the position for a provincial party in Canada. She was elected to the House of Commons of Canada, Dominion parliament, in 1945 for the riding of Qu'Appelle. She was only the fifth woman ever

neg: Jill Wine-Banks a partner at the Chicago law firm of Jenner & Block. In 1987, she became the executive director of the American Bar Association, the first woman to hold that position. In 1989, there was a minor scandal after Wine-Banks persuaded the Illinois Attorney General's office, of which Wine-Banks had once been the second in command, to assign a prosecutor to investigate a veterinarian who she believed had negligently treated her Dalmatian, leading to the dog's death. After the "Chicago Tribune" ran a story titled "Grieving Dog Owner Unleashes Clout With State," a former ABA president, Eugene Thomas, circulated a letter

neg: Anna Burger in her local union. Burger organized a walkout in efforts to create a safer working environment for the office. Burger became more active in her union, and quickly moved through the ranks of the local union. Burger became SEIU local 668's first full-time woman president before moving onto the SEIU International office in Washington, DC, to work as National Director of Field Operations, under former SEIU president John Sweeney. Burger successfully ran Sweeney's campaign for president of the AFL-CIO. She was elected Executive Vice President of SEIU, and Secretary-Treasurer in 2001, and announced her retirement on August 11, 2010. In

neg: Women's rights in Afghanistan Kazakhstan reached an agreement with the European Union that the EU would contribute two million euros to train and educate Afghan women in Kazakhstan. In the last decade Afghan women have participated in various types of sports including futsal, football, and basketball. In 2015 Afghanistan held its first marathon; among those who ran the entire marathon was one woman, Zainab, age 25, who thus became the first Afghan woman to run in a marathon within her own country. Afghanistan is a patriarchal society where it is commonly believed that men are entitled to make decisions for women, include those pertaining

neg: Ida Hall Roby and was the first woman to graduate from the pharmaceutical department of that institution in 1889. The first woman to graduate from the Chicago College of Pharmacy in 1880 was Celia Tirrel, who would later be the treasurer of the Woman's Pharmaceutical Association of which Roby was the president. Roby was by natural instinct a chemist, and she won a unique reputation as a successful woman in a line of business that at the time was generally left to men to handle. Roby managed the Chicago Women's Lecture Bureau. Roby was the president of the Woman's Pharmaceutical Association of Illinois,

neg: 2006 Malagasy presidential election December 25. Aside from Ravalomanana, presidential candidates included former deputy prime minister Herizo Razafimahaleo, former prime minister and acting president Norbert Ratsirahonana, Roland Ratsiraka, nephew of former president Didier Ratsiraka and mayor of Toamasina, and Jean Lahiniriko, who was Speaker of the National Assembly from 2003 until earlier in 2006. One woman also ran for president, Elia Ravelomanantsoa. In mid November, retired general Andrianafidisoa, commonly known as Fidy, whose candidacy had been rejected for failing to pay the deposit, had leaflets distributed announcing a military takeover; describing Ravalomanana's government as unconstitutional, he called for the military to support him. This

neg: Betty Castor Tampa, where she joined the League of Women Voters's Tampa chapter, becoming its president in 1970. Castor's second daughter, Karen, was born in 1968 and her son, Frank, who currently serves as judge in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 1970. In 1972, she ran for the Hillsborough County Commission. An advocate of environmental protection and governmental reform, Castor faced ten opponents in the Democratic Primary and faced a general election opponent as well. She won all the contests, becoming the first woman ever elected to the County Commission. During her term, she chaired the Environmental Protection Commission and became chair

neg: A Certain Woman 1954. Directed by Shirō Toyoda and starring Machiko Kyō in the role of Yōko, Masayuki Mori, who was the son of the author Arishima Takeo, played the role of the journalist, and Eiji Funakoshi played the role of Kimura. "A Certain Woman" has also been adapted for television twice. The first time was a mini-series by Nippon Television which ran from February 2, 1962, to March 9, 1962, and the second time was on Fuji Television, which ran from November 2, 1964, to November 30, 1964. A Certain Woman The novel is partly biographical, with Arishima modeling the protagonist, Yōko,

neg: Lillian Feickert Lillian Feickert Lillian Ford Feickert (July 20, 1877 – January 21, 1945) was an American suffragette, New Jersey state political organizer, and the first woman from New Jersey to run for United States Senate. She served as the President of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association from 1912 to 1920, and later helped organize the New Jersey League of Women Voters. She went on to serve as the Vice-Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee and unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1928. Lillian Ford was born on July 20, 1877 in Brooklyn, New York. She was the

neg: John Adikes Bond by Miami lobbyist Stephen Paul Ross. He co-managed political campaigns for Nikki Beare for the Florida House of Representatives (1974), Elayne Weisburd the first woman elected to the Miami Beach City Commission (1977) and civil rights pioneer Reverend Theodore Gibson the first African-American elected to the Miami City Commission (re-election campaign, 1977). Bond was Vice President of Dade County Young Democrats (1977). He was a member of the Broward County Democratic Executive Committee (1980–82) and Vice President of the Hollywood (FL) Democratic Club (1982). Bond ran unsuccessfully for the Florida House of Representatives (1980) and Hollywood City Commission (1982.) Bond

neg: Kathryn H. Stone history of that planned community. She also was active with the Commission on Human Resources of the Washington Center for Metropolitan Studies (serving as vice chairman), and the Tenth District Women's Democratic Club. In 1954, Stone (who ran as a "housewife and mother") became the first woman elected to represent northern Virginia in the Virginia General Assembly, and the first woman to serve as a Virginia legislator in two decades. She took office months before the United States Supreme Court issued its first decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Her husband Harold was then working for the Department of

neg: Carolyn Conn Moore Carolyn Conn Moore Carolyn Conn Moore (January 7, 1904-January 14, 1986) was an American politician from Franklin, Kentucky who became the first woman to serve in the Kentucky Senate when in November 1949 she won a special election to replace her husband, J. Lee Moore, in the legislature after his death. Moore was married to J. Lee Moore who was an attorney and legislator. Moore was active in the Franklin County PTA and served as vice president of the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers. After the death of her husband in 1949, Carolyn ran unopposed in a special election

neg: Margaret Chase Smith the Maine House of Representatives; it was the first time in American history that two women ran against each other for a Senate seat. On January 27, 1964, Smith announced her candidacy for President of the United States. She declared, "I have few illusions and no money, but I'm staying for the finish. When people keep telling you, you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try." She lost every single primary election, but did manage to win 25% of the vote in Illinois. At the 1964 Republican National Convention in San Francisco, she became the first woman

neg: Mount Washington Cog Railway gained ownership in 1961. (Arthur Teague was the colonel's protégé, but no relation.) After he died in 1967, the ownership passed to his wife, Ellen Crawford Teague, who ran the Cog as the world's first woman president of a railway. In 1983, Mrs. Teague sold the railway to a group of New Hampshire businessmen. From 1986 to 2017, the Cog Railway was controlled and owned by Wayne Presby and Joel Bedor of Littleton, New Hampshire. The Bedor and Presby families also owned the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort in Bretton Woods for the period 1991–2006. In 1995, the railway appointed

neg: Little Miss Jocelyn criticised two men for not thanking her to stop at a request stop by calling them homosexuals. One of her catchphrases is "You're lucky I'm a Christian!" Paulette - a spoilt middle-aged woman who screams and cries when she doesn't get her own way. Fiona - a middle-aged woman who works in an office and tries to conceal the obvious fact that she is black, however this rarely works and her "blackness" is obvious. Madame President - the first black female president of the USA. She speaks slang instead of regular English. Mrs Omwokwopopo - a Nigerian woman who is

neg: Anna Byford Leonard Anna Byford Leonard Anna Byford Leonard (July 31, 1843 – ) was an American reformer, who was the first woman who was appointed sanitary inspector. She also served as president of the Woman's Canning and Preserving Company. Anna Byford was born in Mount Vernon, Indiana, July 31, 1843. She was a daughter of the physician and surgeon, William Heath Byford, of Chicago, Illinois. He was the founder and president of the Woman's Medical College of Chicago. In 1889, Leonard was appointed sanitary inspector, being the first woman who ever held that position, and was enabled to carry out many of

neg: La que se avecina from the residents, who include his parents, Vicente Maroto and Gregoria Gutiérrez, who live below him in apartment 2B. They share a floor with Amador Rivas, Maite Figueroa Espinosa and their 3 children (apartment 2A); and Germán Palomares, a defaulter whose identity is completely unknown. In flat 1A live Cristina Aguilera, a woman whose wedding was recently called off by her fiancé, who ran off with another woman, and Silvio Ramírez, a gay man from Cuba who often poses as her boyfriend, and even as her fiancé in the final episode. In flat 1B lives Leo Romaní, vice-president of the

neg: Antoinette Dakin Leach Party. Leach was an active organizer on behalf of women's suffrage, and formed the first "effective suffrage club in Sullivan." In 1910 she became state organizer for the National American Suffrage Association and ran for state representative on the Equal Suffrage Party's ticket, receiving ten votes in the November election. As a strong supporter of women's suffrage, Leach was also an ally of Susan B. Anthony. Alva Belmont, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, described Leach as "the most capable advocate of the equal suffrage movement since Susan B. Anthony." Leach also founded the "Woman Citizen", a monthly

neg: Libby Mitchell 2004 to 2010. She was also the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and as President of the Maine Senate (2008–2010), becoming the first woman in the United States to have held both positions, and the third person ever to do so. Mitchell was a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1974 through 1984. She ran for the U.S. Senate in 1984, earning 24% of the vote against incumbent William Cohen. From 1986 to 1990, Mitchell served as director of the Maine State Housing Authority. She also ran for the U.S. Congress in the 1990 Democratic Primary,

neg: New England Woman Suffrage Association New England Woman Suffrage Association The New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) was established in November 1868 to campaign for the right of women to vote in the U.S. Its principal leaders were Julia Ward Howe, its first president, and Lucy Stone, who later became president. It was active until 1920, when suffrage for women was secured by the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The NEWSA was formed during a period when a split was developing within the women's rights movement and also between one wing of that movement and the abolitionist movement. Disagreement was especially sharp over the

neg: Ebiti Ndok was the only woman who ran for president of Nigeria under the platform of the United National Party for Development, receiving 98,262 votes. Ndok-Jegede is married with four children. Ebiti Ndok Ebiti Ndok-Jegede (born Ebiti Onoyom Ndok) is a Nigerian politician. She ran for presidency in the 2011 presidential election under the platform of the United National Party for Development, a party she once served as National Chairman. Born in Ibadan, the capital city of Oyo State, South-Western Nigeria, Ndok-Jegede is a native of Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. She started her career as a practicing nurse at the University College

neg: Kathleen Kane Democratic primary. Her primary opponent, former U.S. Representative Patrick Murphy, was endorsed by former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and the "Pittsburgh Post-Gazette". Kane defeated Murphy 53% to 47%. In the general election, Kane won by 14.5 percent over Cumberland County district attorney David Freed who ran unopposed in the Republican primary. The win made Kane the first woman elected State Attorney General in Pennsylvania, and the first Democrat elected to the position since it ceased being an appointed office in 1980. Kane received more votes than President Obama or Senator Casey did in Pennsylvania during the 2012 elections; her total

neg: Kristin Collum Kristin Collum Kristin Collum is an Army veteran who ran as a Democrat for the office of the Idaho Lieutenant Governor in the Idaho elections, 2018 (in which every state executive office is open), part of that year's midterm United States elections. The race is notable as her GOP opponent, former state representative Janice McGeachin, is also a woman, ensuring that the state's next Lt. Gov. will be a woman, a historic first for the state.<ref name="Idaho's next lieutenant governor will be a woman, making state history Read more here: https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/election/article211119539.html#storylink=cpy"></ref> Brad Little, who is now running for governor, currently

neg: Brooklyn Public Library officio members of the Board serve three-year terms. Linda E. Johnson was named President and CEO on August 16, 2011, after having served as the institution's Interim Executive Director since July 1, 2010. She replaced Dionne Mack-Harvin who served as executive director from March 2007. Mack-Harvin was the first African American woman to lead a major public library system in New York state. Previously, Ginnie Cooper had been the executive director of the BPL since January 2003. Other notable executive directors include Kenneth Duchac who ran the system from 1970 until his retirement in 1986. Duchac is the father of

neg: Emma Kammacher pour le suffrage féminin and then was president from 1947 to 1955. She was a member of the committee for the monthly publication "Femmes suisses". She lobbied for women's right to vote in Switzerland; when this right was granted for the canton of Geneva in 1960, she ran successfully for a seat on the Grand Council of Geneva. On the council, she lobbied for the rights of the underprivileged. In 1965, she became the first woman to serve as president of a Swiss cantonal council. Kammacher died in Le Grand-Saconnex at the age of 76. She continued to practice law

neg: Alveda King "some blatantly chauvinistic remarks." She did not withdraw. With the black vote split, Fowler defeated both King and Williams in the primary. That was the last time she ran for elective office. However, since then, she has publicly stated that she is a Republican. King is a member of the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission, having been nominated to the position by President Donald Trump in 2018. In 1984 King supported the Reverend Jesse Jackson for president. In 2012 King was a supporter of Herman Cain for president and defended him from sexual harassment claims, saying, "A woman knows a skirt-chaser"

neg: Margaret Storkan the developing world and Storkan's job was to pass on the latest developments in dermatology to local doctors. She initiated the painting of the wards at the leprosarium. Ashore, she ran a leprosy clinic for USC in San Pedro. She was one of the founders of The History of Dermatology Society in 1973 and in the same year was the first woman vice-president of the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD). She was the second woman to be elected to the AAD board of directors, serving from 1971 to 1973. Storkan died at her home in Redondo Beach, on December 3,

neg: Helen Kinnear the Welland Riding. It appeared that she would soon win election to Parliament of Canada. However, she later relinquished the role to Humphrey Mitchell, the newly appointed Minister of Labour who did not have a seat. Kinnear never ran again. In 1943, Kinnear was appointed county-court judge for Haldimand County, becoming the first woman in Canadian history to be appointed a judge by the federal government. Kinnear saw the appointment as not just a personal victory, but a "victory" for women. In 1947 she was appointed judge of the Juvenile Court. She was the first woman in the Commonwealth appointed

neg: Charlene Mitchell Black woman, Charlene." As a third-party candidate in the Election of 1968, Mitchell was the first African-American woman to run for President of the United States. She represented the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and her running mate was Michael "Mike" Zagarell, the National Youth Director of the party. At 23 years of age, he was younger than the constitutionally required age of 35 to hold office. They were entered on the ballots in only two states. Mitchell's brother and sister-in-law Franklin and Kendra Alexander had also been active in the party. In 1988, Mitchell ran as an Independent Progressive for

neg: Harriett Woods pull her very effective television ads for an entire week late in the campaign. Nationwide, publicity over the narrow loss of a candidate, who with a little more money, might have been the first woman ever elected Senator from the State of Missouri, led to the creation of the political action committee called Emily's List in 1985. In 1984, Woods ran for the office of Lieutenant Governor. Her name recognition from the Senate race gave her a significant advantage. She succeeded in her bid, even as voters elected the deeply conservative John Ashcroft as Governor and as President Ronald Reagan

neg: Workers' Party (Brazil) as Babá) and senator Heloísa Helena, who formed the Socialism and Liberty Party ("Partido Socialismo e Liberdade" − PSOL) in June 2004 and ran for President in 2006, becoming at the time the woman who had garnered the most votes in Brazilian history. In another move, 112 members of the radical wing of the party announced they were abandoning PT in the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre on 30 January 2005. They also published a manifesto entitled "Manifesto of the Rupture" that states that PT "is no longer an instrument of social transformation, but only an instrument of the

neg: 1972 United States presidential election in four others, and received 3,674 votes, winning no states. However, they did receive one Electoral College vote from Virginia from a Republican faithless elector (see below). The Libertarian vice-presidential nominee Theodora "Tonie" Nathan became the first Jewish person and the first woman in U.S. history to receive an Electoral College vote. Linda Jenness was nominated by the Socialist Workers Party, with Andrew Pulley as her running-mate. Benjamin Spock and Julius Hobson were nominated for president and vice-president, respectively by, the People's Party. McGovern ran on a platform of immediately ending the Vietnam War and instituting guaranteed minimum incomes for

neg: Marion West Higgins Speaker. When Governor Richard J. Hughes was out of the state in January 1965, Higgins became Acting Governor. Normally, New Jersey Senate President Charles W. Sandman, Jr. would have taken the post, as he stood first in the line of succession to the governorship. However, Sandman absented himself from the state so that Higgins would be accorded the honor of serving as the first woman to lead the state. Higgins ran for State Senate in 1965 on the Republican Party's Bergen County slate, but all four Republican candidates went down to defeat in the general election, as Democrats took control

neg: New England Woman Suffrage Association again elected president in 1893 and served until her death in 1910. Alice Stone Blackwell, Lucy Stone's daughter, was president from 1911 until the organization ceased to exist in 1920. When the Nineteenth Amendment, which secured suffrage for women, was ratified in 1920, the NEWSA simply ceased to function rather than formally dissolving. New England Woman Suffrage Association The New England Woman Suffrage Association (NEWSA) was established in November 1868 to campaign for the right of women to vote in the U.S. Its principal leaders were Julia Ward Howe, its first president, and Lucy Stone, who later became president. It

neg: History of women in Puerto Rico who began her career as an educator and in 1936, became the first woman to be elected senator in Puerto Rico. In 1938, she served as Acting leader of the Liberal Party upon the death of the party president Antonio Rafael Barceló. That same year Josefina Barceló Bird de Romero, the daughter of Antonio Rafael Barceló, became the first Puerto Rican woman to preside a political party in the island when she was named president of the Liberal Party. Felisa Rincón de Gautier, also known as Doña Fela, was elected mayor of San Juan in 1946, becoming the first woman

neg: Marathon world record progression Stamata Revithi, who ran the 1896 Olympic course a day after Louis, is the first woman to run the modern marathon. The IAAF credits Violet Piercy's 1926 performance as the first woman to race what is now the standard marathon distance; however, other sources report that the 1918 performance of Marie-Louise Ledru in the Tour de Paris set the initial mark for women. Other "unofficial" performances have also been reported to be world bests or world records over time. Although her performance is not recognized by the IAAF, Adrienne Beames from Australia is frequently credited as the first woman to

neg: Reba Hurn Reba Hurn Rebecca Jane Hurn (1881–1967) was the first woman elected to the Washington State Senate, serving from 1923 to 1930. Before launching her legal and political careers, she pursued graduate work at Heidelberg University in Germany, then worked for New York philanthropist and political activist Nathan Straus, who became her mentor. Her assistance with Straus's Democratic Party activities provided Hurn with first-hand political experience long before she ran for office as a Republican in 1922. As the lone woman in the state senate, she at first attracted press attention more as a novelty than as the serious legislator that

neg: Shirley McLoughlin Shirley McLoughlin Shirley McLoughlin (born 1930) is a former Canadian politician, who was the leader of the British Columbia Liberal Party from 1981 to 1983. She was the first woman ever to lead a political party in the province. Prior to assuming the leadership, McLoughlin worked as a teacher, and served as the party's president. She ran as the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in Comox—Powell River in the 1980 federal election, losing to Ray Skelly. She was elected leader of the BC Liberals at their leadership convention on May 25, 1981, over lawyer Tom Finkelstein and farmer Roland Bouwman.

neg: Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford point that Hanaford left to start the Second Universalist Church, for which Ellen Miles ran the Sunday School. Although the nature of Hanaford's relationship with Miles is uncertain, their letters testify to a deep friendship. They remained together for forty-four years, until Miles's death in 1914. Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford Phebe Ann "Coffin" Hanaford (May 6, 1829 — June 2, 1921) was a Christian Universalist minister and biographer who was active in championing universal suffrage and women's rights. She was the first woman ordained as a Universalist minister in New England and the first woman to serve as chaplain to

neg: Tidye Pickett who began to coach her. At the 1932 United States Olympic Trials Pickett competed in the 100-meter dash, winning her heat and placing third in her semi-final; she qualified for the final, where she placed sixth. Pickett was named to the American Olympic team as part of the eight-woman 4 × 100 meter relay pool; she and Louise Stokes, who was also part of the relay pool, were the first African-American women to be selected for the Olympic Games, but both of them were left out of the final four-woman relay lineup that ran at the Olympics. Pickett and Stokes

neg: Pangasinan be its presidential candidate in 1998. De Venecia ran but lost to Vice President Joseph Estrada. Oscar Orbos, who served as Pangasinan governor from 1995, ran for Vice President, but lost to Senator Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, whose mother, former First Lady Evangelina Macaraeg-Macapagal, hails from Binalonan, Pangasinan. Arroyo later ascended to the presidency after the second EDSA Revolution when President Joseph Estrada was overthrown. In May 2004, actor-turned-politician Fernando Poe, Jr., whose family is from San Carlos City, Pangasinan, ran for President against incumbent Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo during the Philippine general election in 2004. The Pangasinan vote was almost evenly split by

neg: Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy woman to clerk on that court. In 1965 Kennedy ran for Wayne County Circuit Court judge and lost by fewer than 100 votes. Kennedy and her sister, Judge Margaret G. Schaeffer, were the first sister judges in the United States. Schaeffer sat on the 47th District Court in Farmington Hills, Michigan from 1974 to 1992. She was in private practice of law in Detroit from 1948 to 1966. She was a judge of the Michigan Circuit Court for the Third Judicial Circuit from 1966 to 1970. Kennedy was nominated by President Richard Nixon on September 3, 1970, to a seat

neg: Howdy Gray Howdy Gray Howard Kramer "Howdy" Gray (August 28, 1901 – September 6, 1955) was a college football player and surgeon. Gray was a prominent end on the Princeton Tigers football team. On the national champion "Team of Destiny" in its game against Chicago, Howdy picked up a fumble and ran it 40 yards for the touchdown. Gray's father, the president of the Union Pacific Railroad, wildly waved his program and hit a woman in the shoulder. "Hey, that's my wife," a man shouted at him. "Sorry," the excited father said, "but that was my boy who scored." "Oh," the husband

neg: Isabel Andreu de Aguilar which favored education as a prerequisite to voting. That same year, 1925, Andreu was appointed to serve on the Board of Trustees of the University of Puerto Rico. In 1929, Andreu was selected as president of the Association of Women Suffragists and the women were successful in attaining the vote for literate women. In 1932, Andreu ran as a Senator for the Liberal Party, the first woman ever to run. After losing the election, Andreu returned to school and completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of Puerto Rico in 1935. Later that year, she studied sociology at Columbia

neg: Corazon Aquino Corazon Aquino Maria Corazon "Cory" Cojuangco Aquino (January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th President of the Philippines, becoming the first woman to hold that office. The first female president in the Philippines, Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which toppled the 21-year rule of President Ferdinand Marcos. She was named "Time" magazine's Woman of the Year in 1986. Prior to this, she had not held any other elective office. A self-proclaimed "plain housewife", she was married to Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., the staunchest critic

neg: Wilma Tisch of the Distribution Committee of Federation of Jewish Philanthropies which was responsible for allocating resources to charities that supported the Jewish community. She was instrumental in obtaining Federation sponsorship for Blythedale which also ran a program on joint disease in addition to being a children's hospital. In 1975, she became chairman of the Distribution Committee of the Federation. In 1980, she became the first woman to serve as president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies serving until 1983. She also served as the board chairwoman of the WNYC Foundation, Vice Chairman of United Way of New York City, Director of

neg: Marie-Elise Gbèdo fight against corruption. In the election, she took 11th place with 0.36% of the vote. In November 2005, she wrote the book "Le destin du roseau" (The Reed of Destiny), containing autobiographical interviews and essays on her vision of Benin's development and that of Africa in general. Running again in the March 2006 presidential election, Gbedo was followed by filmmaker Sanvi Panou, who created a documentary film called The Amazon candidate. Another woman, Celestine Zanou, was among the 26 candidates. Gbedo took 16th place with 0.33% of the vote. She ran for president in the March 2011 presidential election. After

neg: Mu (shaman) endured weariness and hunger, and after twenty-one days she was transformed into a beautiful woman, while the tiger ran away for it could not tolerate the effort. The woman "Ungnyeo" was overjoyed, and visiting the sandalwood city she prayed that she might become the mother of a child. Ungnye's wish was fulfilled, so that she became the queen and gave birth to a prince who was given the royal name of "Dangun", the "Sandalwood King". Dangun reigned as the first human king of Korea, giving to his kingdom the name of Joseon, "Land of the Morning Calm". Dangun was the

neg: 2004 Philippine presidential election vote. This is also the first election since the 1986 People Power Revolution where an incumbent President ran for re-election. Under the 1987 Constitution, an elected president cannot run for another term. However, Arroyo was not elected president, but instead succeeded ousted President Joseph Estrada, who was impeached with charges of plunder and corruption in 2000 and later convicted of plunder (but received conditional pardon from Arroyo). Moreover, this was the first time since 1986 that both the winning president and vice president were under the same party/coalition. This election was also held at a period in modern Philippines marked

neg: Progressive Party (United States, 1948) of the US intervention in the Korean War, and quit the Progressive Party three weeks later. In 1952, the Progressive Party ran lawyer Vincent Hallinan for president. Their vice presidential candidate was Charlotta Bass, the first African-American woman ever to run for national office. The campaign attracted little media attention and few votes, and was not even on the ballot in many states. Erstwhile Progressive candidate Henry A. Wallace supported Dwight D. Eisenhower, published an article in the September 7, 1952, issue of "This Week" magazine (a Sunday supplement that was included in 37 American newspapers) entitled "Where I Was