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Age Ineligibility
- When
- 1872-1873
- Where
- United States
Woodhull was ineligible for the presidency because she would not reach the constitutional minimum age of 35 until 1873.
Woodhull was ineligible to be president on Inauguration Day, not because she was a woman, but because she would not reach the constitutionally prescribed minimum age of 35 until September 23, 1873. Historians have debated whether to consider her activities a true election campaign.
Sources
- 1872 United States presidential election Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-17
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