Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927

LC control no.	n 80109891
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Claflin, Victoria, 1838-1927 Martin, Victoria C. Woodhull (Victoria Claflin Woodhull), 1838-1927 Martin, John Biddulph, Mrs. Mrs. John Biddulph Martin
See also	Founder of corporate body: National Equal Rights Party (U.S.) *Browse this term in* LC Authorities
Other standard no.	0000000082228682 40187572 Q260378
Associated country	United States
Associated place	New York (N.Y.)
Birth date	1838-09-23
Death date	1927-06-09
Place of birth	Ohio
Field of activity	Suffrage Presidential candidates--United States
Profession or occupation	Suffragists
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Found in	Her Woodhull & Claflin's weekly, 1870-71. The rapid multiplication of the unfit, 1891: t.p. (Victoria C. Woodhull Martin) Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2013 (born Victoria California Claflin, Sept. 23, 1838, died June 9, 1927; American leader of women's suffrage) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull> OCLC, Sept. 6, 2013 (hdg.: Woodhull, Victoria C. (Victoria Claflin), 1838-1927; usage: Victoria Claflin Woodhull, Victoria C. Woodhull, Mrs. John Biddulph Martin) Lepore, Jill. These truths, ©2018: page 328 (Victoria Woodhull, a charismatic fortune-teller from Ohio who'd attended a suffrage convention in 1869, moved to New York, and reinvented herself as a stockbroker, became the first woman to run for president [in 1872]; she ran as a "self-nominated" candidate of the party she helped create, the Equal Rights Party; ingeniously, she argued that women already had the right to vote, under the privileges and immunities clause of the Constitution -- an argument Woodhull brought before a House Judiciary committee, making her the first woman to address a congressional committee)