RIP Geraldine Ferraro.

[TheBigotBasher]

May she be remembered as the first woman on a Presidential ticket.

Yes she did much wrong in 2008 and by giving Faux some semblance of credibility but her life and career should be held in much deeper regard than the mistakes she made over the past two.

She joined the Queens County District Attorney's Office in 1974, where she headed the new Special Victims Bureau that dealt with sex crimes, child abuse, and domestic violence. She was elected to Congress in 1978, where she rose rapidly in the party hierarchy while focusing on legislation to bring equity for women in the areas of wages, pensions, and retirement plans. In 1984, former Vice President and presidential candidate Walter Mondale selected Ferraro to be his running mate in the upcoming election. In doing so she became the only Italian American to be a major-party national nominee in addition to being the first woman.

[endless october]

1. a true trailblazer.

rest in peace.

[L. Coyote]

7. And BRAVO to Walter Mondale!!

[JitterbugPerfume]

2. she was beautiful , smart and brave

[baldguy]

3. .

[Cassandra]

4. Had an opportunity to shake her hand at a parade

Really exciting moment to be a woman.

[Pisces]

5. She was a trailblazer, however she was also a racist. And unforgivable that she was a Fox news

contributor during the elections.

[roguevalley]

6. that was a bad addition to her career, I will agree. but RIP anyway

[LadyBugFL]

8. RIP Ms. Ferraro

My sympathies to your family for their loss.

[hfojvt]

9. she was the same age as my mom

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/03/geraldine-ferraro-first-female-veep-nominee-dies/1

born in 1935, and has had blood cancer for the last 12 years.

Lost to Chuck Shumer in the 1992 Senate primary.

[littlewolf]

10. I had no Idea she was even sick ...

blood cancer .... RIP and condolences to her family ...
I am glad for her and her families sake she was able to
keep her private life - PRIVATE ....

[hfojvt]

11. Her private life was private because she was mostly out of the spotlight

Not even getting a lot of attention on DU.

[BlueDemKev]

12. Good Lady

While I did feel she wasn't the best POLITICAL choice Mondale made, she was a woman of deep conviction and fought hard against all odds for what was right in 1984.

RIP Geraldine Ferraro.

[jillan]

13. Nooooooo - I have chills going down my spine. RIP!

[alphafemale]

14. Well...first "Major Party" candidate anyway.

There were women candidates well back in the 1800's I'm sure.

[niyad]

19. victoria woodhull, for one

Presidential candidate
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Woodhull was nominated for President of the United States by the newly formed Equal Rights Party on May 10, 1872, at Apollo Hall, New York City. A year earlier, she had announced her intention to run. Also in 1871, she spoke publicly against the government being composed only of men and proposed there be a new constitution and a new government a year thence.<11> Her nomination was ratified at convention on June 6, 1872. Former slave Frederick Douglass was nominated for Vice President. Douglass never acknowledged this nomination. Instead, he served as a presidential elector in the United States Electoral College for the State of New York.

While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for President of the United States, some people have questioned the legality of her run, usually citing one of the following reasons:

* The government declined to print her name on the ballot.

This criticism is not valid as the government was not responsible for printing ballots. In 1872, political parties were responsible. This practice changed in the United States between the years 1888-1892 with the adoption of the Australian ballot. The Washington Post, about fifty years after the election, claimed that the Equal Rights Party published ballots bearing her name and that they were handed out at the polls. Because no Equal Rights Party ballot for 1872 has been preserved, this claim cannot be confirmed. The first woman to appear on a presidential ballot printed by the government was Charlene Mitchell in 1968.

. . . .

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Woodhull

[myrna minx]

15. Rest in peace and thank you for providing the way for young girls to

dream of higher office.

[malaise]

16. R.I.P. trailblazer

:cry:

[bigwillq]

17. RIP

K and R

[Liquorice]

18. K & R for Ferraro. She had true grit. nt

[Bluebear]

20. K/R for a trailblazer.