Her father Buck, who devised a "miracle cancer cure" out of mutton fat and lye, claimed that she was clairvoyant.  To this end, she put on psychic shows and worked part time as a prostitute after she was married at 15, often claiming to be visited by the spirit of Demosthenes.  With her sister, she started a newspaper, Claf
Her father Buck, who devised a "miracle cancer cure" out of mutton fat and lye, claimed that she was clairvoyant.  To this end, she put on psychic shows and worked part time as a prostitute after she was married at 15, often claiming to be visited by the spirit of Demosthenes.  With her sister, she started a newspaper, Claflin's Weekly, but it was her introduction to Cornelius Vanderbilt that allowed her to make a fortune as a stockbroker.  However, she would be disgraced by a libel suit for her publication of rumors about the love life of Reverend Henry Ward Beecher.  FTP, name this woman who was nominated by the Equal Rights Party in the presidential election of 1872.
Her father Buck, who devised a "miracle cancer cure" out of mutton fat and lye, claimed that she was clairvoyant.  
Victoria Claflin Woodhull