Women Who Have Run for United States President

Hillary Clinton in her 2008 run for the Democratic nomination for US President came the closest so far that any woman has come to winning the nomination of a major political party in the United States. But Clinton is not the first woman to run for United States President, and not even the first to run for a major party's nomination. Here's a list of the female presidential candidates I've been able to discover, arranged chronologically by each woman's first campaign for the office: Women Who Have Run for United States President