Join President Mary B. Marcy and the League of Women Voters of Marin County at their Fall 2012 Kick-off event. Dr. Marcy explores women in American politics in this 10 minutes short video. She examines why women have been successful in states west of the Missouri River and discusses each political candidate from the first women in the the House of Representatives in 1894 to Hillary Rodham Clinton the first Presidential candidate in 2008. View historical patterns where women have been elected in political office in this short video.