Elizabeth Cady Stanton
12 November 1815 – 26 October 1902
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was an American writer and activist who was a principal leader of the women's rights movement in the United States. She organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and drafted its Declaration of Sentiments, the first organized demand for women's suffrage in the country. With Susan B. Anthony she co-founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and shaped the movement's intellectual agenda for half a century.
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Life events
Elizabeth Cady was born in Johnstown, New York, the daughter of lawyer and judge Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe studied at Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary, one of the few institutions then offering advanced education to women.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgShe married abolitionist lecturer Henry Brewster Stanton, famously omitting the word 'obey' from the wedding vows.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe Stanton family relocated to Seneca Falls, where her frustrations with domestic isolation sharpened her commitment to women's rights.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStanton was a principal organizer of the first women's rights convention in the United States and authored its Declaration of Sentiments demanding women's suffrage.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStanton met Susan B. Anthony in Seneca Falls, beginning a five-decade collaboration in which Stanton wrote many of the speeches Anthony delivered.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWith Susan B. Anthony, Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association and served as its president for over twenty years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgWhen the rival suffrage organizations merged into the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Stanton was elected its first president.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStanton published the first volume of The Woman's Bible, a controversial critique of religious orthodoxy's treatment of women.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgStanton died of heart failure at her home in New York City at the age of 86, eighteen years before American women won the vote.
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