Marietta Stow

Marietta L. Stow (* 1830 or 1837 in Webster, New York, † December 1902 ) was an American politician and women's rights activist. She was the first candidate for the office of U.S. Vice-President, among others in the presidential elections of 1884.

Life

After the death of her husband, Joseph W. Stow in 1872 her entitlement to a fortune of $ 200,000 was denied by a California court. They then began a campaign in which they turned against it, that the status of women is dependent on its position as a wife. Among other things, she wrote in this connection the book Probate confiscation. In 1880 she went to for the Greenback Party in the election of the Director for the schools of San Francisco. 1882, she ran unsuccessfully for election to the governor of California for the Women's Independent Political Party. Statewide recognition she received, however, only when she ran in 1884 on the side of Belva Ann Lockwood presidential candidate for the Equal Rights Party for vice-president.

Works

• Unjust laws Which govern women: Probate confiscation. 1876
• Probate chaff, or, beautiful probate, or, three years probating in San Francisco. A modern drama, showing the merry side of a dark picture. 1879