Second Marriage
About 1866 Woodhull married Colonel James Harvey Blood, who also was marrying for a second time. He had served in the Union Army in Missouri during the American Civil War, and had been elected as city auditor of St. Louis, Missouri. They divorced in October 1876.
In 1872 Victoria Woodhull had started a relationship with the anarchist Benjamin Tucker, which lasted for three years.
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