Thank You Mary: Mary Walker, a woman who sought equality for women. She was a surgeon, and she wore pants– when it was illegal to do so. She was proud of her arrest for this; she wanted the right for women to wear pants. She won the congressional medal of Honor when she never even had the right to vote!
Many write: 1st. female Vice Presidential candidate, Geraldine Ferraro....this is an incorrect historical statement. Geraldine Ferraro was the 25th woman to run for U.S. Vice President. She was the 1st. woman representing the Democratic party, but the first woman that became the first United States Vice Presidential Candidate was indeed Marietta Stow in 1884.