James Blood

For other people named Colonel Blood, see Colonel Blood (disambiguation).

For the jazz/blues guitarist see James Blood Ulmer

Col. James Blood
Occupation	Military, Politics
Spouse	1) Mary Ann Clapp Harrington; 2) Victoria Woodhull (circa 1865-1876); and 3) Isabell Morrill Fogg

James Harvey Blood (29 Dec 1833-29 Dec 1885) was a former Commander of the 6th Missouri Infantry in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was called Colonel, and he was elected as the mayor of Lawrence, Kansas afterward. He was the second husband of Victoria Woodhull, the 19th-century suffragist and activist who was the first woman to run as a candidate for President of the United States.

He married three times, to Mary Ann Clapp Harrington, Victoria Claflin Woodhull (c. 1865-1876), and the widow Isabell Morrill Fogg.

He died in Akanten, Gold Coast, Africa, while on a gold mining expedition, where he had struck gold.

External links

• History of Lawrence, Kansas (of which Blood was briefly the mayor, just a few years prior to his wife's candidacy.)
• Colonel Blood & The Fogg Women, Victoria-Woodhull Website

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Name	Blood, James
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Date of birth	1833
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Date of death	1885
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