Is Trump's election the first successful presidential election campaign with a female campaign manager? From a tweet with over six thousand retweets, also retweeted by Nazí Paikidze, International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM): > The first woman in American history to successfully manage a presidential campaign was Trump's campaign manager Assuming that "successfully manage" means managing a presedential campaign that resulted in that candidate's election, is Trump's election campaign the first successful US presidential campaign with a female campaign manager?

* Obama's 2012 campaign: Jim Messina
* Obama's 2008: David Plouffe
* G.W. Bush 2004: Ken Mehlman
* G.W. Bush 2000: Joe Allbaugh
* Clinton (1996): James Carville
* Clinton (1992): David Wilhelm
* George H. W. Bush (1988): Lee Atwater
* Ronald Reagan (1984): Ed Rollins
* Ronald Reagan (1980): William J. Casey
* Jimmy Carter (1976): Robert Strauss
* Richard Nixon (1972): John Mitchell / Clark MacGregor



So, since at least 1972, all males

Source: Wiki pages for all of them/campaigns.