Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Female
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    1
    Family
    Lewis Johnson Bennett (father), Hannah Green Bennett (mother), Uriah McNall (first husband, 1868), Ezekiel Lockwood (second husband)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Genesee College, NY; National University, Washington DC
    Occupation
    Politician
    Attorney or Judge
    Educator
    Journalist
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Political Parties
    Other
    Other Political Party
    National Equal Rights Party
    Other Affiliations
    Women’s Rights

    Belva Lockwood, Election of 1884 (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    In 1884, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to continue to work for women's rights through an established national political party (Republican). [Belva] Lockwood, then fifty-four, broke with them and accepted the nomination of the Equal Rights party as its presidential candidate. Her running mate was Marietta L. B. Stow. Their platform supported women's rights, including suffrage and reform of marriage and divorce laws; assimilation of Native Americans; veterans' benefits; civil service reform; prohibition of alcohol; greater action on behalf of universal peace; and a variety of economic measures to reduce public debt, improve trade, revive the expansion of industry in the East and the South, and limit monopolies. Victoria Woodhull had run for president in 1872 but had not reached the constitutionally mandated age of thirty-five, and she did not campaign formally because she was in jail. Lockwood thus was the first viable woman candidate for the U.S. presidency. Her ticket received 4,149 votes and the entire electoral vote of Indiana. She was renominated for president by the Equal Rights party in 1888.
    Jill Norgren, "Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett McNall," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/15/15-00416.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Lockwood, Belva Ann Bennett," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/23198.