When you consider how much that amount of money would buy, in that age and country, and how usual it was to be scrofulous, when not dead, you would understand that the annual king's-evil appropriation was just the River and Harbor bill of that government for the grip it took on the treasury and the chance it afforded for skinning the surplus.
It happened in Rochester, New York on November 5, 1872, and the event--and the trial for illegal voting that followed--would create a opportunity for Anthony to spread her arguments for women suffrage to a wider audience than ever before. The Vote. Anthony had been planning to vote long before 1872.
In 1964, Margaret Smith became the first woman ever nominated by the republican party to run for president but her bid was not successful. Previously, she had served in the US House of Representatives from 1940-1949. She had also served as a US Senator from 1949-1973, representing Maine. She was the first woman ever to serve both in the House & Senate. She was a republican.