Margaret Chase Smith. Author, politician, U.S. congresswoman, presidential candidate, Smith was born Margaret Madeline Chase on December 14, 1897, in Skowhegan, Maine. The wife of U.S. representative Clyde Smith, Margaret Chase Smith became an important political force in her own right in the twentieth century. She announced her candidacy for President in January 1946 at the… Continue reading On election eve, remembering the first woman to run for President of the United States. She ran in 1964.