Which historical woman would’ve been the best President?

The pictured women are First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, US Senator Margaret Chase Smith, Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, and Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby.

Roosevelt was long considered a potentially candidate for high office, although she never sought it.

Senator Smith and Congresswoman Chisholm did run for President.

Hobby served as Eisenhower’s Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and was also a colonel in the U.S. Army during WWII. According to Jean Edward Smith’s Eisenhower in War and Peace, President Eisenhower saw Hobby as an ideal successor, and encouraged her to run in 1960. She ultimately declined.

Curious to hear thoughts on others!