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On 6 June 2016, the Associated Press declared Hillary Clinton the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party on the eve of six of the seven remaining primaries and caucuses. Subsequent headlines described Secretary Clinton as the first female nominee: Almost as soon as the headlines began to appear declaring Clinton the first female nominee, social media began to dispute the descriptor — apparently, suffragette Victoria Woodhull was entitled to that first, not Secretary Clinton: Other memes asserted that not only was Victoria Woodhull the first female nominee, but that a number of other women assumed the role in the years after Woodhull's first. A Facebook post published the following list of female contenders that came before Clinton and after Woodhull: The Guardian profiled some of the women depicted in that meme, and their respective bids for the office of President. In April 2015, Politico reported: Woodhull's controversial run was not without consequence: It wasn't a secret that Woodhull ran for president in 1872, half a century before the ratification of the 19th Amendment afforded women the right to vote. But the headlines were not as precise as Clinton herself: Clinton also included the modifier on Twitter: It is true that Victoria Woodhull ran for office in 1872, long before the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. But it was also true that Clinton is the first presumptive nominee of a major party, pending the party's July 2016 Democratic National Convention.
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