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Elizabeth Cady StantonBorn on 12 November 1815 in Johnstown, New York to Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady, Elizabeth was one of eleven children. Her father was a prominent attorney who served one term in the U.S. Congress as a Federalist and later became both a circuit judge and a New York Supreme Court Justice in 1847.

Elizabeth's father instroduced her to law and planted the seeds for her later roles as an American activist for women's suffrage.

Unlike most women of her era, Elizabeth was formally educated. She studied Latin, Greek and mathematics, winning several awards and honors at the co-educational Johnstown Academy. But, upon graduation, many of her male classmates went on to study at the men-only Union College. Stanton enrolled instead in the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York. It was in Troy where she met Charles Grandison Finney, an evangelical preacher who managed to push her away from organized religion altogether.

But, Stanton did become involved with the temperance and abolition movements, and it was through this activism that she met her husband, Henry Stanton. Stanton was a journalist, an antislavery orator, and - after his marriage to Cady - an attorney. When Elizabeth married Stanton in 1840, she rewrote her vows, as she refused to "obey" someone who shared marriage equally.

While Henry Stanton was a progressive, he - like Elizabeth's father - were not advocates for women's rights. This did not stop the Stantons from developing a large - albeit planned - family. Elizabeth enjoyed motherhood and advocated homeopathy, freedom of expression, lots of outdoor activity, and a solid, highly academic education for all of her children.

The family moved to Seneca Falls, New York in 1847. Here, Elizabeth and Lucretia Mott organized the first women's rights convention. Soon after the convention, Elizabeth was invited to speak at a women's rights convention in Rochester, New York. It was here that she met Susan B. Anthony. The two women together were instrumental in founding the short-lived Woman's State Temperance Society (1852-53).

Although Anthony was single and Stanton was married with children, they complimented each other in their work for women's rights. Anthony had the time and energy, and Stanton had the education and legal knowledge that would lead the two women into a legacy that would change women's rights forever.

In 1868 Stanton - together with Susan B. Anthony and Parker Pillsbury, a leading male feminist of his day - began publishing a weekly periodical, Revolution, with editorials by Stanton that focused on a wide array of women's issues. In addition to her writing and speaking, Stanton was also instrumental in promoting women's suffrage in various states in a stint as a national speaker with the Lyceum Circuit. Her influence was felt particularly in New York, Missouri, Kansas, where it was included on the ballot in 1867, and Michigan, where it was put to the vote in 1874.

Elizabeth made an unsuccessful bid for a U.S. Congressional seat from New York in 1868, but she was the primary force behind passage of the "Woman's Property Bill" that was eventually passed by the New York State Legislature. She worked toward female suffrage in Wyoming, Utah, and California, and in 1878, she convinced California Senator Aaron A. Sargent to introduce a female suffrage amendment using wording similar to that of the Fifteenth Amendment passed some eight years previously.

Unfortunately, Elizabeth died from heart failure at her home in New York City on 26 October 1902, nearly two decades before women were granted the right to vote in the U.S. Stanton was commemorated along with Lucretia Mott and Susan B. Anthony in a sculpture by Adelaide Johnson at the United States Capitol, unveiled in 1921. Originally kept on display in the crypt of the US Capitol, the sculpture was moved to its current location and more prominently displayed in the rotunda in 1997.

Additionally, the Elizabeth Cady Stanton House in Seneca Falls has been declared a National Historic Landmark and she is commemorated in the calendar of saints of the Episcopal Church on 20 July, together with Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth and Harriet Ross Tubman.


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Title :From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: The Romantic Period, 1820-1860: Fiction: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902)
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