There's a Wikipedia "List of female United States presidential and vice presidential candidates" that goes back to Lucretia Mott and Lydia Maria Child receiving nomintaton votes at the abolitionist Liberty Party convention in 1847. Only two women have ever received electoral-college votes for President, both in 2016: Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party and indigenous activist Faith Spotted Eagle, who received a vote from a faithless elector pledged to Clinton. But my favorite piece of trivia is in the list of women who have received 40,000 or more votes for President: it concludes with comedian Gracie Allen, whose 1940 spoof campaign for President for the Surprise Party garnered 42,000 votes nationwide. (Andrew Shields, #111Words, 4 November 2024)
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