The Victoria Woodhull/Frederick Douglass Ticket in the 1872 U.S. Presidential Election (and Comparing Woodhull's Career to a Classic Movie)

Looking at the Details of Woodhull's Wild Career Trajectory, a Possible Corrupt Presidential Election, a Victorian Era "Hays Code", and Comparisons to Charles Foster Kane

The call for a "People's Convention,"--issued by Mrs. E. Cady Stanton, Isabella B. Hooker, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, as the Executive Committee of the National Woman's Suffrage Association, and by Victoria C. Woodhull

, Horace H. Day, Anna M. Middlebrook and others, in behalf of the "party of the people, to secure and maintain Human Rights, to be inaugurated in the United States in May, 1872" met, according to call, in Steinway Hall, on Thursday morning, May 9...

This was the preamble (back when you could get away with writing one sentence as a paragraph) to the official report of the Equal Rights Party convention held in NYC in the middle of May of 1872. The reason I highlighted in bold one of the women above is because that particular one ultimately became the nominee for this party to run for President of the United States against Ulysses S. Grant who was running for a second term. A controversial figure, Victoria Woodhull probably has no real similarity (for much better than worse) to Hillary Clinton of today. Yet, Woodhull's unexpected running mate on that Presidential run was an eyebrow-raising choice for the time period...and one that would still cause unfortunate interesting reactions if a possible similar scenario happened at the 2008 Democratic Convention. All the crazy machinations that happened after Woodhull's nomination are ripe for a movie (with eerie parallels to a classic movie I'll mention later) to prove that political history has enough strange twists and turns to almost outdo modern political news.