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    Is Barack Obama the first visible minority to run for president for any political party?

    Question #100774. Asked by david1975. (Nov 05 08 12:45 AM)


    edmund80

    		No. For one, there is Victoria Claflin Woodhull who ran for the U.S. presidency in 1872.
    One could also make the argument for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was paralyzed from the waist down and had to use a wheelchair, albeit in private, as not being part of a "majority" but only in that respect.

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

    http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/first198.html

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt#Paralytic_illness

    Nov 05 08, 12:58 AM
    star_gazer

    		And not long ago Jesse Jackson also ran for president, he is a black civil rights leader.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson#1984_presidential_campaign

    Nov 05 08, 7:50 AM
    knud77

    		Shirley Chisholm (D-NY) 1972.

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

    On January 23, 1972, she became the first major-party African American candidate for President of the United States.

    [Link and text added -- Zb]

    Nov 05 08, 9:44 AM
    cag1970

    		Former US Representative Cynthia McKinney (D-Georgia) also ran for president in 2008, representing the Green Party.

    http://www.gp.org/index.php

    Nov 05 08, 4:34 PM

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