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jul 12 Learn More Walter Mondale Names Geraldine Ferraro Running Mate
Presidential hopeful Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate on this day in 1984. She was the first woman to be nominated for vice-president of the United States. It wasn't, however, the first time a woman had been wrapped up in the race for the White House. In 1872, suffragette Victoria Woodhull ran for president from the Equal Rights Party, which nominated abolitionist Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Douglass never acknowledged the nom, and Woodhull received zero Electoral College votes.
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