Victoria Claflin Woodhull was the first woman presidential candidate in 1872. Woodhull, who championed women's suffrage, was nominated by the Equal Rights Party. Prior to the nomination, Woodhull co-founded a women's rights magazine along with founding a stock brokerage firm with her sister. The firm was backed by Cornelius Vanderbilt. In 1887, Susanna Madora Salter became the first woman mayor in the U.S., in Argonia, Kansas. Later, the first woman in Congress was Jeannette Rankin, elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Montana in 1913. The first woman in the Senate was Hattie Wyatt in 1932.