Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Woman Suffrage

Leader of the 19th century women's rights movement

Amy French

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1815

Johnstown, New York, USA

1902

Stanton was a women’s rights advocate who organized the first women’s rights convention. Along with Susan B. Anthony, she traveled the country holding more conventions. In 1869 she founded the National Woman Suffrage Association, holding the position of president until 1892. She helped compose the first three volumes of the six-volume History of Woman Suffrage. Unfortunately, she died before seeing her goal of female enfranchisement realized with the 19th Amendment in 1920.

Dubois, Ellen Carol. Feminism & Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848–1869. (Cornell University Press, 1999).
"Women Working," Harvard Open Collections Program, various works:http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/vcsearch.php?any=cady+stanton
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Papers Project: http://ecssba.rutgers.edu/
History of Woman Suffrage and other works on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/authors/s#a3186