Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815-26 October 1902) was an American suffragist, social activist, abolitionist, and the author of the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments.
Biography[]
Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York in 1815, the daughter of Federalist congressman Daniel Cady and the cousin of Gerrit Smith. She married Henry Brewster Stanton, a co-founder of the Republican Party, and they were both active abolitionists. She later narrowed her focus to women's rights, and she spoke on women's parental and custody rights, suffrage rights, property rights, income and employment rights, divorce, the economic health of the family, and birth control. In 1848, her Declaration of Sentiments was presented at the Seneca Falls Convention, initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States. Following the American Civil War, she and Susan B. Anthony opposed giving legal rights and protection to African-Americans, and she also supported temperance. She died in 1902.