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Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin


Sarah Palin served as governor of Alaska from 2006 to 2009, the state's first female governor. In August 2008, Senator John McCain chose Palin to serve as his vice-presidential running mate in his presidential campaign, making Palin the first woman to run on the Republican Party's presidential ticket. Palin was born on February 11, 1964, in Sandpoint, Idaho, moving to Alaska with her family in later that year. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications from the University of Idaho in 1987, then returned to Alaska to work […]
Pat Schroeder
Pat Schroeder


Patricia "Pat" Schroeder represented Colorado in the United States House of Representatives from 1973 to 1997. She was the first woman elected to Congress from Colorado, running without the support of the state Democratic Party or the Democratic National Committee. Schroeder was born July 30, 1940, in Portland, Oregon. She graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1961 with degrees in philosophy, history, and political science. Following, Schroeder completed her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1964. From 1964 to 1972, she was a field attorney with the National […]
Margaret Chase Smith
Margaret Chase Smith


Margaret Chase Smith served as a U.S. representative from Maine from 1940-1949 and a U.S. senator from 1949-1973. Smith was the first woman to serve in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and the first woman in Maine to serve in Congress. Smith was also the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for president by a major party. Smith was born in Skowhegan, Maine, on December 14, 1987. After graduating from high school, she worked as a teacher, telephone operator, office manager for a woolen […]
Elizabeth Warren
Elizabeth Warren


Elizabeth Warren assumed office as a U.S. senator for Massachusetts in January 2013, becoming the first female senator from Massachusetts. In February 2019, she announced her candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States. On March 5, 2020, Warren suspended her campaign for president. Warren was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on June 22, 1949. She received her bachelor's degree in speech pathology from the University of Houston in 1970 and her J.D. from Rutgers University in 1976. She began her career as an elementary school teacher. […]
Marianne Williamson
Marianne Williamson


Marianne Williamson is an author, lecturer and activist, and was a 2020 Democratic candidate for president of the United States. Williamson was born in Houston, Texas, on July 8, 1952. She studied theater and philosophy for two years at Pomona College in Claremont, California, dropping out her junior year. In 1983, she began lecturing on "A Course in Miracles." She published her first book, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles," in 1992. In 1989, Williamson founded Project Angel Food, a non-profit that delivers […]
Victoria Woodhull
Victoria C Woodhull


Victoria Claflin Woodhull was an activist and a leader of the U.S. woman's suffrage movement, and the first female candidate for president of the United States as the nominee for the Equal Rights Party in 1872. Woodhull was born September 23, 1838, in Homer, Ohio. In 1953, at age 15, she married Canning Woodhull and subsequently had two children. Because husband was an alcoholic, Woodhull often worked outside the home to support the family. She divorced her husband in 1864 and married Colonel James Harvey Blood in 1866. Possibly because […]