Hillary Rodham Clinton

Hillary Rodham Clinton was born in Chicago, Illinois (USA) on October 26th, 1947. She is married to Bill Clinton (the 42nd President of the United States) and was the First Lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001. She is a woman of many firsts. Not only was she �First Lady of the US�, but was also the first student at Wellesley College to speak at the commencement exercises, was the first woman partner at the law firm of Rose Law Firm (after she became a lawyer), was the first �First Lady� elected to public office, was the first woman elected Senator from New York, and she was named one of the most influential lawyers in American in 1988 and 1991. She is now considered by some to be the most qualified candidate among the Democratic White House hopefuls. I may yet get to see the first female president of the United States! I wonder how other countries feel about that!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton



Edited by morticia - 15-Jun-2007 at 14:23

Other American women who have run for U.S. President are:

Victoria Woodhull, from Homer, Ohio was the first woman to run for U.S. President in 1838 (50 years before women were given the right to vote, but there were no laws impeding her from running). She was selected as candidate by the Equal Rights Party in the 1872 election. Of course, she lost to Ulysses S. Grant (also from Ohio) who was re-elected for a second term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull

Victoria Woodhull

In 1964, Margaret Chase Smith ran for the Republic nomination in 1964. She was a U.S. senator from Maine. She became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the presidency by either of the two major parties. She came in second to Barry Goldwater. Prior to that, in 1948, Ms. Chase became the first woman elected to both houses of Congress (In 1936 elected to the House of Representative and 1948 elected to U.S. Senate)

http://www.mcslibrary.org/bio/biog.htm

Margaret Chase Smith

In 1972, Shirley Chisholm, a black New York congresswoman, sought the democratic nomination. The 1972 Democratic National convention in Miami was the first major convention in which any woman was considered for the presidential nomination. She received 151 of the delegates� votes, even though she did not win the nomination, and she continued to serve in Congress until 1982.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Chisholm

Shirley Chisholm

In 1984, Geraldine Ferraro was Walter Mondale�s vice-presidential running mate. Up to then, she had become the closest female candidate to the Oval Office.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geraldine_Ferraro


Geraldine Ferraro

In 1988, Patricia Schroeder (former U.S. Representative and the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado) ran for U.S. presidency, but then announced her withdrawal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Schroeder


Pat Schroeder

In 2000, Elizabeth Dole ran for the Republican nomination in the U.S. presidential election, but pulled out of the race prior to the primaries due to lack of fundraising.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Dole


Elizabeth Dole


Edited by morticia - 15-Jun-2007 at 14:37

Forbes has released it's list of the 10 most powerful women and guess what, Democratic Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took the #2 Spot only to the Chancellor of Germany.

Go Hillary!