Victoria California Claflin Woodhull

Born: 1838

Died: 1927

Country of Birth: USA

Nationality: USA

Ethnicity: White

3 years of formal education

Field of Study: Finance

Institution/Corporation: None

Degrees & Memberships: Member: International Workingman's Association AKA First International; Ladies' automotive club

Awards: 2001, National Women's Hall of fame; 2008, Ronald H. Brown Trailblazer Award, St. John's University School of Law; wall memorial at Twekesbury Abbey, a historical marker in Licking county Ohio, a clock tower in Granville Ohio, Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership (1997), Woodhull Sexual Freedom Alliance (2003), historical sites in NY, an opera, & musical based on her life

Achievements: 1st woman to run for president (1872, Equal Rights Party); 1st female stock broker on Wall St.; sister of Tennessee Claflin & together they opened Woodhull, Claflin & Co a brokerage firm in 1870; she & Tennessee published Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly a paper that supported free love, women's suffrage, & progressive political reforms 1870-1876; published the 1st English copy of Karl Marx's The communist Manifesto; 1871, became 1st woman to testify before a committee of the House of Representatives; under the name Victoria Woodhull Martin (married name from 3rd marriage) & while living in England published The Humanitarian from 1892-1901; eugenics, sex education, pre-natal care, & education advocate