Hillary Clinton “made history” when she accepted the Democratic Party’s nomination for president of the United States, supposed the first woman to run on a major party ticket in the general election.

But the Huffington Post points out Clinton certainly wasn’t the first woman to run for president, and her road to the nomination was paved by at least a dozen women who came before her, including some who influenced presidential politics before women could legally vote.

The news site highlights Jessie Benton Fremont, who ran alongside her husband John C. Fremont, the first Republican candidate for president, under the slogan “Freemont and Jessie Too” because of her political involvement.

Fremont was extremely active in her husband’s campaign in 1856, which centered on anti-secessionist and anti-slavery positions, but the couple ultimately lost the election to James Buchanan.

Victoria Woodhull was officially the first woman to run for president, as a candidate for the Equal Rights Party, in 1872, despite the fact that she was a year shy of the 35-year age requirement in the Constitution and before women could legally vote in the U.S. Woodhull championed “free love,” or “inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may,” according to Victoria-Woodhull.com.

About a decade later, in 1884, Belva Ann Lockwood became the first woman to be listed on official ballots as a candidate for U.S. president for the Equal Rights Party. Lockwood also ran for president in the 1888 election, the HuffPost reports.

“It was reported that Lockwood received approximately 4,000 votes in the (1884) election, though she believed this number was significantly lower than the true number of votes cast by her supporters,” according to the news site. “In 1885 she petitioned Congress to investigate voter fraud committed against her,” which allegedly involved those working the polls simply tossing votes for her in the garbage.

Then, in 1940, comedienne Gracie Allen launched a prank run for president under the “Surprise Party” ticket, which eventually turned into the real deal. The campaign originated from the popular Burns and Allen radio show with her husband George Burns.

Allen earned the endorsement of Harvard University, but dropped out of the race before the election, which went to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, according to Wikipedia.

Following Allen was Margaret Chase Smith in 1964, who ran against Barry Goldwater and became the first woman to secure votes at a major party convention – 27 out of 1,308, the HuffPost reports.

“She lost every primary in the election, but did make positive headlines when she secured 25-percent of the vote in Illinois,” according to the news site. “She was the first member of the Senate to oppose Senator Joseph McCarthy for his Communist and Soviet fearmongering (later known as ‘McCarthyism’), saying, ‘I don’t want to see the Republican Party ride to a political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear.’”

After Smith came Shirley Chisholm in 1972. Chisholm was the first black woman elected to Congress and her campaign for the presidency under the Democratic Party ended at the Democratic National Convention, where she received 152 votes.

“While it wasn’t enough to secure the nomination, it ensured that she would address the crowd at the party’s gathering, where George McGovern ultimately received and accepted his place on the party’s ticket,” the HuffPost reports.

The same year, Patsy Matsu Takemoto Mink, the first minority Congresswoman, ran for president in the Oregon primary but dropped out of the race soon after. Linda Jenness also ran for president in 1972, under the Socialist Workers Party, though she wasn’t old enough to be elected. She reportedly appeared on the ballot in 25 states but secured only 83,380 votes, compared to more than 47 million votes for eventual winner Richard Nixon, according to Wikipedia.

Over a decade later, in 1984, U.S. Rep. Geraldine Ferraro of New York, ran for vice president with Walter Mondale, which made her the first female vice presidential candidate to represent a major political party. Ferraro beat out Shirley Chisholm for the spot at the 1984 Democratic National Convention by a vote of 3,920 to 3, according to federal election documents.

Colorado representative Pat Schroeder followed in the 1988 elections when she took over Gary Hart’s campaign for present after he dropped out, although her candidacy lasted only a short time because of a lack of funding and concerns she would be cast as a feminist candidate, the New York Times reported at the time.

Then came Carol Moseley Braun in 2004.

The first black woman elected to the Senate “represented Illinois and the Democratic Party, and in 2004 she attempted to follow in Chisholm’s footsteps with a run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination,” the HuffPost reports.

“Braun failed to gain substantial momentum and struggled with campaign funding, causing her to drop out of the race just four days before the Iowa caucuses.”

Elizabeth Dole, wife of U.S. Senate Majority Leader and presidential candidate Bob Dole, was the last woman to help pave the way for Clinton’s “historic” nomination as Democratic candidate for president.

Dole, who served as Secretary of Transportation under Ronald Regan and Secretary of Labor under George H.W. Bush, ran for the Republican nomination in 2000 but dropped out of the race before the primaries over a lack of funding, the HuffPost reports.