--- title: Hillary Clinton and History: 25 Women to Be First in America description: From the first woman to vote in the U.S. to the first woman to the presidential nominee of a major U.S. political party canonical: https://time.com/4429631/dnc-hillary-clinton-first-woman-nominee/ author: TIME Photo article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-07-29T15:10:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T23:38:35.704Z article:section: History og:title: Hillary Clinton and History: 25 Women to Be First in America og:description: Clinton put the biggest crack yet in the glass ceiling og:url: https://time.com/4429631/dnc-hillary-clinton-first-woman-nominee/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e37aa71257d2342/6988a053cd1bba7674701bec/female-firsts-lead.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1120 og:image:height: 630 og:image:alt: female-firsts-lead og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hillary Clinton and History: 25 Women to Be First in America twitter:description: Clinton put the biggest crack yet in the glass ceiling twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8e37aa71257d2342/6988a053cd1bba7674701bec/female-firsts-lead.jpg?branch=production&width=1120&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hillary Clinton and More: 25 Women Who Were First in America > Sponsored content. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 29, 2016 3:10 PM UTC  Ben Lowy for TIME, Getty Images (4); Photo Illustration by Kenneth Bachor for TIME by [TIME Photo](https://time.com/author/time-photo/) ## TIME Photo Jul 29, 2016 3:10 PM UTC Somebody has to be first. Or, rather, lots of people have had to be first at lots of things. And on Thursday night, with her official acceptance of the Democratic Party’s nomination for President, [Hillary Clinton](http://time.com/4360626/hillary-clinton-victory-speech-history/) added [one more](http://time.com/4361626/hillary-clintons-first-national-splash-life-magazine-in-1969/) “first” to her résumé: first woman to ever become the nominee for President of the United States for a [major](http://time.com/3771209/hillary-clinton-female-candidates/) political party. It was, as Clinton herself put it [earlier in the week](http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/videos/2016-07-27/hillary-clinton-we-just-put-the-biggest-crack-in-glass-ceiling), the biggest crack yet in the glass ceiling. In the 240 years since the founding of the United States, countless other have joined the “first woman in America to” club. Many of those firsts have been forgotten by history. Others, however, were recorded and remembered. Any list of them will, by necessity, be partial. The list includes the woman who disguised herself as a man in order to serve in the Revolutionary War. The list includes the woman who was elected to Congress even before women were guaranteed the right to vote. The list includes politicians, artists, explorers, fighters, doctors and many more—just a few of whom are shown above. Of course, many women who might have been first at something were, through no fault of their own, unable to do so. Laws, customs and prejudices can overlap and contradict, so a “first woman in America to…” list looks a lot like a “first _white_ woman in America to…” list, at least when it comes to the firsts that were recorded at the time for posterity. But a list of the first women of the American future, rather than the past, will likely look a lot different. 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