... was a prominent advocate of women's suffrage in America. She and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, published a newspaper entitled Woodhull & Claflin's Weekly.
Woodhull was arrested a few days before the election, on obscenity charges, after the newspaper published an account of the alleged adulterous affair between the prominent clergyman Henry Ward Beecher and Elizabeth Tilton, the wife of Beecher's friend Theodore Tilton. On election day she received a negligible percentage of the popular vote, and no electoral votes.
She was also too young to be elected as President; the inauguration would have been six months before her 35th birthday. Historians cannot agree on whether or not she was a true election candidate.
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