Elizabeth Cady Stanton

1815-1902

• American reformer and leader of the woman suffrage movement
• Born in Johnstown, NY
• Educated at the Troy Female Seminary (now Emma Willard School) in Troy, NY
• In 1840 she married Henry Brewster Stanton, a journalist and abolitionist
• Attended the international slavery convention in London where the woman delegates were excluded from the floor of the convention
• The exclusion of women candidates led Elizabeth Stanton and Lucretia Mott to organize women to win greater equality
• The first women's rights convention in the U.S. was held in 1848 at Seneca Falls, NY (Stanton was instrumental in organizing this event)
• Stanton pushed for a suffrage clause to be included in the bill of rights for women
• She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1869 to 1890, and of the National American Woman Suffrage Association from 1890 to 1892
• Elizabeth Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Parker Pillsbury edited the Revolution, a militant feminist magazine from 1868 to 1870
• Stanton was a brilliant orator and an able journalist