Earliest Possible Female President?

Eleanor Roosevelt is probably the best bet here. Let's say that Truman has her put on the ticket in 1948 (he actually thought about doing so, IIRC), and Truman and Roosevelt go on to win the election. The assassination attempt on Truman goes better than it did IOTL, and you have President Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950.
 
Eleanor Roosevelt is probably the best bet here. Let's say that Truman has her put on the ticket in 1948 (he actually thought about doing so, IIRC), and Truman and Roosevelt go on to win the election. The assassination attempt on Truman goes better than it did IOTL, and you have President Eleanor Roosevelt in 1950.

There was an assassination attempt on Truman?

And, how would people react to a woman on a presidential ticket, in 1948?
 
The Western states, if I recall correctly, allowed women's suffrage decades before the East. I think it had to do largely with both men and women working on the frontier just to survive. It tends to tear down the glass ceiling when you don't wanna die of Dysentery.

Maybe have that trend move into the eastward establishment more quickly? I don't think it's necessarily impossible to get a female president relatively early given the right POD's.

Eons ago (so I can't cite the source) I read something in a New Jersey historical source about women having the right to vote until about 1805. The vote was taken away from them after a notorious referendum (may have been the Newark-vs.-Elizabeth-for-seat-of-Essex-County thing, which would put it like ten miles from where I grew up) when women would allegedly go home, change their dress, and come back to vote again (and some men allegedly voted in male clothes and then again in drag).

I don't know if New Jersey was unique or if others of the original 13 permitted women to vote, then all moved away from it for some reason. But at some point, we had no women voting; then Wyoming (in 1869, when it was created as a territory) became the first place in the US to establish women's suffrage in the process that eventually led to the Constitutional amendment of 1920.
 
There was an assassination attempt on Truman?

Yes- in November, 1950, 2 Puerto Rican nationalists attempted assassinate Truman, and started by attempting to shoot their way into the Blair House (where Truman was staying due to the reconstruction of the White House), and got into a shootout with Secret Service, Capitol, & White House Police guards that lasted less than a minute, and ended with one gunman and one officer of the White House Police (the uniformed division of the Secret Service) dead- the only member of the Secret Service to have died defending the President, and two officers and the other gunman wounded. The surviving gunman was convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of the officer in 1952, but Truman commuted the sentence to life, and he was pardoned by Carter in 1979.

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Eons ago (so I can't cite the source) I read something in a New Jersey historical source about women having the right to vote until about 1805. The vote was taken away from them after a notorious referendum (may have been the Newark-vs.-Elizabeth-for-seat-of-Essex-County thing, which would put it like ten miles from where I grew up) when women would allegedly go home, change their dress, and come back to vote again (and some men allegedly voted in male clothes and then again in drag).

I don't know if New Jersey was unique or if others of the original 13 permitted women to vote, then all moved away from it for some reason. But at some point, we had no women voting; then Wyoming (in 1869, when it was created as a territory) became the first place in the US to establish women's suffrage in the process that eventually led to the Constitutional amendment of 1920.

A lot of early voting rules said 'if you owned this much land or earned that much money' you could vote. Meaning, of course, white males, but the odd woman (widows, for instance), or 'rich' blacks slipped through the crack.

When they moved to universal manhood suffrage, it was MANhood. A couple of widows to stupid to know they're not supposed to vote, that's one thing, any women? Not bloody likely in that day and age.
 
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