Ideas By Eden Collinsworth November 19, 2024 7:00 AM EST Collinsworth is the author of the forthcoming The Improbable Victoria Woodhull: Suffrage, Free Love, and The First Woman to Run for President (Doubleday, 2025) O n April 2, 1870, two years before the 1872 U.S. presidential election, a letter to the editor of the New York Herald appeared in its pages, announcing a campaign for the presidency against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant. The letter was signed by Victoria Woodhull . Woodhull, who had