https://www.cityofsmoke.com New York in History and Anecdote Sat, 26 Dec 2015 02:30:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/686 https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/686#respond Sun, 01 Mar 2015 23:43:08 +0000 http://www.cityofsmoke.com/?p=686 Some years ago, the Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating Belva A. Lockwood, Esq., whom the agency believed had been the first woman Presidential candidate. In 1884 and 1888, Mrs. Lockwood waged symbolic campaigns (she appeared on no ballots and received no votes) to publicize the cause of women's suffrage. The first woman admitted to the Illinois bar, Mrs. Lockwood was apparently a paragon of respectability, as worthy of postal honors as, say, Richard Nixon, the unindicted co-conspirator. The Postal Service got the essential thing wrong.]]> https://www.cityofsmoke.com/archives/686/feed 0