Both women were suffragists and believers in equal rights for women so the name had a symbolic meaning.Victoria Claflin Woodhull is remembered as The Woman Who Ran for President, but whether she actually ran is debatable. She was a notorious woman. Born on September 23, 1838 in Homer, ...
In states where SWP candidate Linda Jenness was not accepted for the ballot because she was under the Constitutional age for qualifying for the presidency, Evelyn Reed ran in her place. Reed was a longtime American Communist Party activist in the U.S. and active in the women's movement of ...
The progressive candidate whoran against corruptionand pumped out more than 50 policy proposals during her campaign,suspended her runafter a lackluster finish in all four early voting states and on Super Tuesday -- where she even came up short in her home state. Her best finish was in Iowa,...
Scholten is fending off a challenge from Republican Paul Hudson, who unsuccessfully ran for the state Supreme Court in 2022. Democrats currently have a significant spending advantage on the airwaves: Scholten and her allies have placed more than $3 million in the general election, while Repub...
But Democrats noted that Vance lost both of those districts when he ran for Senate in 2022. Although he won that race by more than 6 points, he lost Kaptur’s district by less than 1 point and Sykes’ by 6 points. “Vance lost both … congressional districts because he is an e...
Ran for Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 on a left-wing, anti-war platform. Briefly achieved viral celebrity due to his pugnacious debate performances and eccentric campaign ads. Issues: At age 88, says he is not interested in winning the presidency but ran anyway to highlight issues...
He eventually fled the farm and took up silversmithing. He married in 1776 to a wife who reacted to his manic-depressive episodes by raging at him. He finally ran off to the Ohio River basin, where he was caught and taken a prisoner by the British and the Indians. He came back to ...
where he gained notoriety for fasting outside a housing project to denounce the intensifying crime and drug use in some of Newark's neighborhoods. After launching an unsuccessful bid in 2002 against incumbent mayor Sharpe James, Booker ran again in 2006 and defeated deputy mayor Ronald Rice. Duri...
Madison,who had wanted to be a Senator, then ran for Congress. Hepledgedto voters during his campaign that he would indeedpush for Amendments. When the first Congress met,Madisondid propose Amendments, butnone of the ones Henry had authored. ...
Shortly after Maring, the Comintern representative, arrived in China in 1921, he had a meeting with Li Hanjun and Li Da, who then ran the Communists' Shanghai branch. Maring told them the Comintern was willing to provide economic help but they must first submit their work plan and budget....