| Show Two Women Sought U. U S. S Presidential Nomination Belva A. A Lockwood who headed the ticket of the Equal Rights party in 1884 and again in ln 1888 was not the first woman nominated for the presidency of the United States That honor belongs to Mrs Victor Claflin Woodhull who in 1872 was nominated for the presidency at Vineland N. N J. J by a convention styling itself the Equal Rights party Frederick Douglass the negro re re- reformer reformer former was the candidate for vice president The campaigns of these two women amounted chiefly to suf suf- suffrage frage propaganda since neither could have held the office had they been elected asserts a writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer I Mrs Lockwood Lock lawyer and re re- re reformer reformer former was born in 1830 1 30 at Royal- Royal Royalton ton N. N Y Y She was educated at Genesee college Lima N. N Y Y and taught school for eleven years Then she studied law and was admitted to I practice before the Supreme court under a law which she had been in in- instrumental instrumental in getting passed Born Belva Ann Bennett she was married in 1848 to Uriah H. H who died five years later and in 1868 to Dr Ezekiel Lockwood She died in 1917 r |
