You should do a video on what celebrities ran for public office. The obvious ones are Reagan and Trump, but Sonny Bono and Shirley Temple are mentions as well. Could be interesting?
There’s a whole series there. Off the top of my head, outside of the four you mentioned: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura both successfully pursued gubernatorial offices, and actress Cynthia Nixon campaigned against Andrew Cuomo in 2018. Al Franken was a U.S. Senator, and several other celebrities like Clay Aiken and Antonio Sabato Jr. staged Congressional bids. Jerry Springer served as Mayor of Cincinnati in the 1970s, too.
@@gabepollock1641Clint Eastwood was mayor of Carmel by the sea.
Fred dalton thompson was a US senator and later became a regular on law and order.
Don't forget Kanye's 2020 run, I just hope 20 years later he doesn't end up running as a Republican and winning presidency, Trump cough cough
100 women! I had no Idea that many women existed.
@@Arran05Your not gonna believe this, but my mom is also a women, that's 103.
Victoria woodhull and Fredrick Douglas would have been on hell of a duo lol.
The term “running mate “ is loose for Douglas in this case. He didn’t seek the nomination or participate in Woodhull’s campaign. I mean, I could declare any celebrity my best friend; does that make it so?
Could you imagine if Eleanor Roosevelt ran and became POTUS?
She was the most powerful woman in the history of USA politics, I always liked her, she would have made a great president, she had so much compassion and good sense.
Get this: In 1956, she and Senator Margaret Chase Smith had a huge nationally televised debate with each acting as surrogates for Stevenson and Eisenhower, respectively. I think you might be able to find it online, perhaps even on TH-cam. Crazy fact: Senator Smith was so respected by a number of Republicans in 1952 that there was talk about her being a potential VP for Ike.
We'd have 3 Roosevelt presidents and they'd all be some of our best lol
@@hawkeyeten2450 From the Archives: Eleanor Roosevelt and Senator Margaret Chase Smith on "Face the Nation" in 1956
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Woodhull was arrested during her campaign in fear she would win. By time she was released she wasn’t able to make up for the lost time.
@@iammrbeat I doubt she would have won with her name not being on the ballots and that her opponents were just being irrational on the idea of a woman running for president, but she could have done better in votes
@@iammrbeata woman is an adult female (trans inclu obviously) who can consent marriage, Tennessee
On a more serious note, Victoria Woodhull I've never heard of her until now 😕 it makes me sad knowing that the righteous history is suppressed (Mother Jones) another example
@@franciscoacevedo3036 Woodhull was mention in a few episodes of Mysteries of the Museum. That’s where I learn about how she was arrested during her campaign. But I actually first heard of her from one of Mr. Beat’s Presidential Elections of American History.
It’s incredible to me that Roseanne Barr not only received so many votes in 2012, but she received the SAME number of votes as Kanye West did in 2020 (give or take a few hundred)
Granted neither of these celebrities was as controversial during their runs, but Kanye received so much coverage in the media for “taking away the Black vote” while I never even knew Barr ran!
Roseanne was on the ballot in only a few states. She got the majority of her votes (around 40K) in California, where she got the Peace and Freedom Party nomination. You probably didn't live in a state where she was on the ballot. Ms. Barr going from a left-wing splinter party to full Tr*mp supporter in less than ten years shows her flakiness in political views. Whatever...
Kanye didn't have as much press as you put it. If anything he was depicted as crazy man and his behavior was even worse.
OMG both are absent of brain cell and I'm sorry. Presidents should have educational qualifications in order to be qualified as such. . it's really sad you can be a brainless dropout and criminal and still qualifies to be president of the country. It's an atrocities
Fun Fact: If Cornell West becomes the 47th POTUS (Independent Party), he will be the first President to have a beard since Benjamin Harrison, (Republican Party) who was the 23rd (1889-1893)
I hope he wins😭😭😭 Probably not but maybe there will be a change of heart of about half of America on election day
Been binging your videos recently, and I'm excited to watch this one! Always learn something new when I watch your stuff.
Odd how We got a unofficial women president being Edith "WILLSOOON!!!!!"
I didn’t expect a Home Improvement reference lol, I should’ve.
fun fact Jo Jorgensen teaches at my uni (Clemson, go tigers!) and she is my human sexual behavior prof this semester. apparently from what i have heard from my roommate who took the same class she very funny and really loves what she teaches (also teaches psych as well as HSB)
While they weren't states yet, both Wyoming and Utah actually did allow women to vote in 1872 when Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Wyoming gave women the right to vote in 1869, earning it's nickname "The Equality State," while Utah did it in 1870. Colorado and Idaho followed them up in 1893 and 1896 respectively, making up the only 4 states to give women the right to vote before the 1900 (the next was Washington in 1910). Wyoming actually delayed becoming a state because of it, as congress told them they'd have to stop letting women vote, to which the state legislature responded "We will remain out of the Union one hundred years rather than come in without the women"
Been having rough times, thank you for another great video helps me out too stay edutained
I am sorry you are having rough times. I hope your days ahead get better. Thanks for watching and the words of encouragement.
I hear there's a good chance our neighbors to the South will have a woman president based on their candidates for the upcoming election.
And a Jewish president before we do. Way to go Claudia Sheinbaum for smashing that glass ceiling!
Believe me, we are not eager to have either of the female candidates as president
Claudia Sheinbaum is just a puppet from the current president AMLO, and Xochitl Galvez is a right wing nutjob.
Mr. Beat’s videos are always great! I loved this one especially. Good reminder on how tough woman have had it running for Prez.
FYI Here are some of the first elected female leaders of other independent countries:
Sirimavo Bandaranaike, from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who served almost 18 years in total, starting in 1960 and finally stepped down in 2000 shortly before she died.
Indira Gandhi, of India serving 16 years as PM from 1966 before being assassinated in 1984.
Golda Meir, of Israel serving 5 years from 1969.
Isabel Perón, wife of Argentine dictator Juan Perón, was President for over a year after his death until she was overthrown in a coup.
Elisabeth Domitien, was the first African woman elected PM of the Central African Republic in 1975.
Margret Thatcher, was the United Kingdom's first PM serving over 11 years from 1979 until 1990.
Angela Merkel, of Germany was the longest ever elected female leader, as Chancellor of Germany for just over 16 years from 2005 until 2021.
Sheikh Hasina, was the second Bangladeshi PM, being elected in 1996 then re-elected in 2009 is currently the oldest woman still leading a country.
Finland is the country which has had the most female leaders, at 4.
While women have been historically and internationally shunned from politics, if you look at the few that have been elected so far, their impact is (in my opinion) much larger than the many men that have been in those positions. Whether that's some of the ones I've already mentioned or women like Tsai Ing-Wen of Taiwan or Giorgia Meloni of Italy now.
I'd like to add Mary Robinson president of Ireland from 1990 to 97 while this may seem a bit late and it is in honesty she was only the 7th president in our history
It would be fascinating to learn what particular things have made up those women who observed the longest - I don’t mean generalisation, I mean, specific, attained goals, and visionary thought processes. That would be a fascinating book to read!
You also forget that Pakistan was the third country in South Asia to have a woman as its leader. Benazir Bhutto.
Representatives Martha Griffiths (D-MI) and Florence Dwyer (R-NJ) would have been formidable female presidential candidates. Both were staunch supporters of the Equal Rights Amendment.
A great start to the weekend! Thanks Mr. Beat!
I remember writing about the woman at 2:42 for a school essay a while back. I first learned about her from that election of 1872 video. There hasn’t been a female US president yet but I’m sure she would be happy to see the amount of women who have run for the highest office in the land after her. That and the amount women who have been elected to be governors, senators, etc.
you make videos on topics I don’t even know I’m interested in until I see them! nice work :)
Historical correction: Utah and Wyoming has already let women vote by the time Victoria Woodhull was running, so it’s not true that no state let women vote back then.
Well, it is actually technically true, because Utah and Wyoming were both territories at the time
Ngl “This woman’s place is in the house, the House of Representatives!” Is genius 😂🤣
What a great video. Thank you!
Hey Mr Beat, I think it would be interesting to make a video ranking/explaining all the state mottos. Great stuff as always
I may be too much a political nerd but I feel like Cynthia McKinney and Gloria De Riva should have been mentioned the first because they were a US representative at some point and the other cause they were probably the most successful of any of the female perennial candidates.
Gloria La Riva was never in Congress, and Cynthia McKinney is an antisemite
Mr.Beat can you do a Top 10 Biggest Cases of Corruption In The American Government.
@@iammrbeatI don't think you'd live long enough to do all of them (or you may not want to after doing them)😢
I was wondering about this exact question literally yesterday lol banger video as always Mr Beat 🙏
9:34 Battling Bella is among my favorite members of Congress ever. She was such an amazing person who fought so hard for equal rights for all.
17:07 Carol Braun was a one-term Senator from Illinois who lost reelection in a close race in 1998 to Peter Fitzgerald, who did not run for reelection in the 2004 US Senate Race in Illinois, which was won by none other than Barack Obama.
The latter became a U.S. Ambassador after losing her Senate seat!
Anything with Frontline involved is a must watch for me!
2028 looks likes it's going to be an exciting election year, and a prominent female candidate will definitely stand out. I'm expecting it to be Gretchen Whitmer, but it's still 5 years from now.
I would definitely be not at all surprised to see Whitmer go for it in '28
I could see that. I could also see Karen bass especially if she does a good job as mayor.
@@xshxrShe would make a good president what are you smoking
@@ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty Maybe even a great one, based on her record as governor
@@alonkatz4633 She handily won her governor's race too, comfy margin.
I like that you used your Triumphant song at 8:16. I remember it from your Whig Party video. It brought back good memories.
Fun Fact: belva anne lockwood is actually from a small town in california named after her. "Lockwood" i am from this town and its population is about 400 people. At the only store in the town there is information about belva anne and things she fought for.
Hopefully we’ll have the first female president elect this fall
@@Sub2MushRam Based on what evidence? How is Trump's policy better than Kamala's? He doesn't seem to care much about the middle class, economy was statistically worse under his administration, he shot down some of the best solutions to our border problem while he was in office making the problem worse just so he could "fix the problem" lol, he appointed 3 radical supreme court justices to overturn Roe v Wade which shows he doesn't care much about women's rights, oh and his foreign policy is sub-optimal. Tell me something flawed about Kamala's policy making, something factual, no ad hominems or anything like that. What makes her potential administration worse than Trump's?
@@Sub2MushRam Also refrain from political party slander, let's talk about the reality of each candidate's actual policy.
Bye bye Matt Walsh version of Mr Beat. I hope we never see you again
Love your videos Matt.
Kudos for mentioning Faith Spotted Eagle getting an electoral vote. My home state of WA is the one that gave it to her.
That skit at the beginning is much appreciated.
Anyone else here now that Kamala Harris is running
Awesome video Mr Beat. Important topic. Thank you
Frontline did a 3 hour “The Age of AIDS” that covered the whole crisis from the origins in the early part of the 20th century, through the 80s, the 90s, to current treatments where its a chronic condition vs death sentence
Good stuff
Always makes my day when Mr beat posts❤
Fun Fact: Barbados is the only country to have never had a male president. Its first and current president, Sandra Mason, who previously served as the final governor-general, won through a unanimous vote of parliament in 2021 after Barbados declared independance from the British
barbados was already independant it just didnt have a president but a monarch
I assume we're not counting any country where the office has never existed.
As a Chicagoan back in the 1990s, the name "Carol Moseley Braun" was one that was mentioned quite a few times in the local news, especially when she was the first African American woman elected to the US Senate.
I will always remember Jo Jorgensen, because my Gov class in 2020 made it a joke that she was our class' choice for President
One of the Greatest information about America history wonderful video Great work by All team 👍👍👌👍👍👍
Ironic that the lady campaigning against computers in 1988 or 1992 had a hat the size of a satellite dish 😁
Frontline is the best. I don't know who the narrator is but that guys voice is so compelling that if they did a Frontline on Mr. Beat's Lunchable, I wouldn't be able to turn away.
Hi Mr. Beat, love your videos. I have one question. Why did you opt for two light to hit you from the sides equally instead of a strong key light paired with a fill light? Thank you.
Loved the Matt Walsh cameo.
You make it comical and while it's not relevant to the video, they still have a point. Such a simple question made more complicated than it needs to be to the point that nobody can give it a straight answer. Watching yourself and other politicians either refuse or panic in answering such a simple question is the real comedy in all of this.
Although i think we all know where your flag stands considering you still have not bothered to address CRT's educational manipulation just as you did with that Republican stuff you covered not that long ago. They are both wrong but the fact that you refuse to engage them equally just makes you look like a coward and a hypocrite, terrified of being neutral and not upsetting the rabid mob. You are a smaty guy, so you cannot claim ignorance nor could you possibly agree with that nonsense without compromising your educational integrity., which is why i called you either a coward or a hypocrite.@@iammrbeat
Matt Walsh is a clown who deserves to be mocked the world over.
WOW! My TH-cam history teacher sponsored by Frontline!!!
I wish Frontline made dubbed versions so I could just listen to them while I'm driving.
Amazing video, I love your videos ❤
If you ever want to do a video on notable females that ran for congress, I got one recommendation. Margaret Brown, more famously known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown. She ran for congress after surviving the sinking of the Titanic.
Although you probably can do an entire video on the history of Molly Brown because her fame goes back before she even set foot on the Titanic as a women’s rights activist and of course her husband striking gold leading her from going from third class citizen to first class, and her survival story of the Titanic overshadowed much of it (if anything her history prior to the titanic led to the decisions she made as the ship was sinking and on the lifeboats that made her famous).
I LOVE Frontline!! I’m gonna like this video just for that
Leslie Knope mentioned she was gonna be president by 2024, I think she's a great cantidate
Keep them coming Professor Best
Error: Gloria La Riva was missing from 2020, running for the Party for Socialism & Liberation. She even tried to have Leonard Peltier as her running mate from prison, but he was too ill to dedicate to the task, replaced by Sunil Freeman. Yes, Peltier is what made her 2020 campaign interesting to me on top of being an open communist and Marxist-Leninist.
No and yes. She was a presidential nominee in 1992 (Workers World), 2008, 2016, and 2020 (all Party for Socialism and Liberation). In 2012, she was a stand-in for Socialism and Liberation nominee Peta Lindsay due to her age rendering her ineligible.
I’m glad I am here early to see this! Amazing videos as always!
Can you do a video about the pros and cons of "celebrity presidents"? Or maybe just going over all the people who were popular before holding political office and later deciding to run for president. It's pretty on topic as now people are floating MORE celebrities to try to run against the big two contenders.
You don't need to be 35 years old to run for president. You just need to be at least 35 to serve as president. So for example, Pete Buttigieg could've actually run in the 2016 election. If he won, he would've turned 35 the day before inauguration day.
God help us all if Biden kicks the bucket before the 2024 election
I'm honestly nervous even if he doesn't. This eventual rock-and-a-hard-place situation is exactly what everyone was afraid of in 2020 when he got nominated. But the GOP seems like it's in just as rough of a place, so... who knows? I guess we'll just have to see what happens.
If he doesn't die he's guaranteed to win again, as Trump is going to jail next year. If Biden dies from old age, we get Kamala Harris who's frankly a great candidate to have as POTUS. She's more progressive than Biden and that's what we all need.
Even if he does survive the next year and wins the election, I doubt he'll finish his entire second term and Kamala Harris is so unpopular and Trump is such a sore loser that he'd probably try and run again so it would just be slowing down the inevitable
Me and my mom love to watch Frontline together. It's Cool to see them sponsor you
I'm a longtime viewer of yours, and I'm transgender, and also from Kansas. I love that goofy intro to this video
I learned about Victoria Woodhull when I was in a play about her. I played the part of her sister Tennessee. She also ran a newspaper.
@aaroncarson1770 I don't believe so, but I found this very short TH-cam video. Also, I just now learned that I share a birthday with her. th-cam.com/video/OtHmYKOK1cs/w-d-xo.html
Would love to get a breakdown like this but for class rather than gender. I know some presidents come from merge or modest backgrounds as well as more than a few that were more well off financially.
I kind of already did this with my video going over all the presidents' wealth. However, I like the idea of a video about poorest presidential candidates!
@@iammrbeat oh ok! Didn't realize that, lol gotta scroll down a little further then
@@MingWar_BalGlo Resyndicated has a video about the presidents from the least wealthy backgrounds
Nice video Mr. Beat
Who is your favorite woman who ran for president of the United States of America?
@@iammrbeat As far as I'm aware she's still running this time.
That Matt Walsh slander in the opening was kinda crazy ngl
@warnegoodman He wasnt incapable, he simply chose not to answer the question. He isnt qualified to and neither is Matt Walsh. The only difference is that Mr. Beat is smart enough to know when he isnt a professional.
It isn't a hard question. People who feel that you need to be qualified to define a woman come off as elitist and ideological and are the entire reason that the trust in the academia and sciences is at an all time low. Avoiding the question is cowardly.@@scottthejatt
@@scottthejattYou don't need to be a professional to know what a woman is.
Laura Clay was actually a first cousin twice removed of Henry Clay, US Senator from Kentucky and architect of the Missouri Compromise. He was also another multiple-time presidential candidate.
(He was her grandfather Green Clay's first cousin. The two generations between them makes her a first cousin twice removed.)
I don't know if Laura Clay is related to Henry Clay, but since she's from Kentucky I'm going to just wish that she was. Anyway,
Wouldn't it have been amazing if the fist woman president was Laura Clay, setting the record as not only the first woman to hold the office but also the first Clay to hold the office.
Great video!
It was a nice throwback seeing Cynthia McKinney's name.
Great video! I once shook hands with Tonie Nathan, by the way - she was exceedingly nice. 🙂
It is a shame Governor Richards of Texas never ran for president
Rick Perry ran, but then gained infamy after his "education, commerce, and...uh...the third one I can't remember...oops" gaffe.
Frontline really is top tier content not gonna lie
I think the Bella Abzug Prez Run is incorrect. I have been looking into Abzugs political career for a bit and this is the first I have heard of it, that same year she was in a very tough redistricting battle for House so IDK when she had time to run. The only source I could find on the supposed Run is a 1 sentence thing that doesn't source anywhere else.
That us unless u found a more definitive source elsewhere
EDIT: Sedinam also ran in 2020, she should have been included in that part too
@@iammrbeatI mean, I woulda loved an Abzug run tbh, She was pretty based for her time.
I’m in academic games and I love using your videos to study!!!
When Woodrow Wilson was very sick his wife Edith Wilson ran the country.
With all due respect to Geraldine Ferrero who was indeed the first woman to be the VP nominee of a major party she was not the first woman VP nominee, that was Charlotta Bass who was a journalist and civil rights activist who was the VP nominee for the Progressive Party in 1952. She was also the first black woman nominee. They got 140,000 votes. In 1928 Nellie Tayloe Ross, the former Wyoming Governor was nominated for VP at the Democratic convention and finished third on the first ballot with 33 votes. She was the first woman Governor of any state and still the only one from Wyoming. She later became the first woman director of the mint when FDR won and stayed there till she retired when the GOP finally won again in1953. She lived to be 101.
This made me realise how little restrictions there are for running for president. You could run before you could vote.
Love to see your take on women of the world who have become heads of state and government
Black, female, AND communist in 1968? Yeah I’m not surprised that didn’t get far
Avoiding eye contact during confrontation..? Too relatable Mr. Beat
One could argue Edith Wilson was the first woman president.
My teacher plays your video in his class i have so much respect for him
Your prediction might come true this year mr beat
One lady not mentioned though she was listed as a 3rd party candidate is Jo Jorgensen who was on the 2020 Ballot.
He did mention her, he said that she is the woman with the second most votes ever.
It’s important to note that Kamala Harris was acting President while Biden was unconscious during a medical procedure, a colonoscopy if I remember correctly. Therefore, technically we have had a woman president for a few hours
Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun[1] (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician, and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999. Prior to her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1979 to 1988 and served as Cook County Recorder of Deeds from 1988 to 1992. She was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 after defeating Senator Alan J. Dixon in a Democratic primary. Moseley Braun served one term in the Senate and was defeated by Republican Peter Fitzgerald in 1998.
Following her Senate tenure, Moseley Braun served as the United States Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa from 1999 to 2001. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 U.S. presidential election; she withdrew from the race prior to the Iowa caucuses. In November 2010, Moseley Braun began a campaign for mayor of Chicago to replace retiring incumbent Richard M. Daley. She placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the 2011 election to Rahm Emanuel.
Moseley Braun was the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate, the first African-American U.S. Senator from the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in the primaries for the nomination by a major party, and the first female U.S. Senator from Illinois.
In January 2023, she was nominated by President Joe Biden to serve as chair of the United States African Development Foundation.
An interesting fact is that while serving as ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, in New Zealand, the first openly Trans person in world history was elected to office.
Imagine taking a drink every time you heard, ''Activist'' or ''Communist\Socialist''.
You should do a video about vice presidents like you did about First Ladies.
Shirley Chisholm would’ve been an awesome president.
When will the United States finally have a female president?
Edit: I am so sorry I forgot to bring up Michele Bachmann. She was quite the character, too!
Also, there's mistake at 14:52 I put the donkey symbol for the Republican Party
Yes but not in the upcoming 20 years in my opinion
never
Sometime between 2024 and the heat death of the universe
2032
Soon.