History was made as Hillary Clinton became the first woman nominated by a major political party to run for president, but she certainly isn’t the first female candidate.
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American history is littered with women who have run for president and others who have been nominated by a political party. Some of those parties are quite popular, while others are a bit obscure.
Not all the women who have ran for president or were nominated by a party to run are in this timeline, but they can be found in the timeline’s sources: WomensHistory.About.com and Rutgers’ Eagleton Institute of Politics.