Geraldine Ferraro (Caroline Era)

Geraldine Ferraro (26th August 1935 - 15th March 2003) was the 44th president of the United States, from 2000-03, and the first female president. A Democrat, Ferraro died of multiple myeloma, a disease with which she had been diagnosed in 1998. She is therefore also the only president to have experienced cancer throughout her term in office.