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Women who have won a party's nomination for US president

Posted September 13, 2016 7:00 am

By The Associated Press

This Aug. 25, 2016, photo shows biographies and pulp fiction about America's first female presidential candidate, Victoria Woodhull, and other items in an exhibit about Woodhull at the Robbins Hunter Museum in Granville, Ohio. Nearly a century and a half before Hillary Clinton became the Democratic party's presidential nominee, Victoria Woodhull, a fiery activist from Ohio, became the first woman nominated for U.S. president when the fledgling Equal Rights Party picked her to face incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, well before women won the right to vote. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth) The Associated Press

Dozens of women have sought the presidency throughout U.S. history. A list of the 30 who received the nomination of their party:

1872: Victoria Woodhull (Equal Rights Party)

1884: Belva Ann Lockwood (National Equal Rights Party)

1888: Belva Ann Lockwood (National Equal Rights Party)

1940: Gracie Allen (Surprise Party)

1952: Ellen Linea W. Jensen (Washington Peace Party); Mary Kennery (American Party); Agnes Waters (American Woman's Party)

1968: Charlene Mitchell (Communist Party)

1972: Linda Jenness (Socialist Workers Party); Evelyn Reed (Socialist Workers Party, 3 states)

1976: Margaret Wright (People's Party)

1980: Ellen McCormack (Right to Life Party); Maureen Smith (Peace and Freedom Party); Deirdre Griswold (Workers World Party)

1984: Sonia Johnson (Citizens Party); Gavrielle Holmes (Workers World Party)

1988: Lenora Fulani (New Alliance Party); Willa Kenoyer (Socialist and Liberty Union parties)

1992: Lenora Fulani (New Alliance Party); Helen Halyard (Socialist Equality Party); Isabell Masters (Looking Back Party); Gloria La Riva (Workers World Party)

1996: Monica Moorehead (Workers World Party); Marsha Feinland (Peace and Freedom Party); Mary Cal Hollis (Socialist Party, Liberty Union Party); Diane Beall Templin (The American Party); Isabell Masters (Looking Back Party)

2000: Monica Moorehead (Workers World Party); Cathy Gordon Brown (Independent)

2004: Diane Beall Templin (The American Party)

2008: Cynthia McKinney (Green Party); Gloria La Riva (Party for Socialism and Liberation); Diane Beall Templin (The American Party)

2012: Jill Stein (Green Party); Roseanne Barr (Peace and Freedom Party); Peta Lindsay (Party for Socialism and Liberation)

2016: Hillary Clinton (Democratic Party); Jill Stein (Green Party)

In this Aug. 25, 2016 photo, Columbus State Community College professor Judith Dann, a historian and resident of Homer, Ohio, stands next to a cabinet of items about the first woman nominated for U.S. president, Victoria Woodhull, at the Homer Public Library in Homer, Ohio. Nearly a century and a half before Hillary Clinton became the Democratic party's presidential nominee, Woodhull, a fiery activist from Ohio, became the first woman nominated for U.S. president when the fledgling Equal Rights Party picked her to face incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, decades before women won the right to vote. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth) The Associated Press

This Aug. 25, 2016, photo shows the Victoria Woodhull memorial clock tower in Granville, Ohio. Nearly a century and a half before Hillary Clinton became the Democratic party's presidential nominee, Woodhull, a fiery activist from Ohio, became the first woman nominated for U.S. president when the fledgling Equal Rights Party picked her to face incumbent Republican President Ulysses S. Grant in 1872, well before women won the right to vote. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth) The Associated Press

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