STANTON, ELIZABETH CADY American leader in the woman's rights movement, was born in Johnstown, N.Y., on Nov. 12, 1815, the daughter of Judge Daniel Cady. In her father's law office she learned of the discriminating laws under which women lived, and many tragic cases observed there determined her in the ambition to equalize the rights of her sex. She did much by the circulation of petitions to secure the passage in New York in 1848 of a law giving a married woman property rights. In the same year, on June 19 and 20, in Seneca Falls, was held, chiefly under the leadership of Mrs. Stanton and Mrs. Lucretia Mott, the first woman's rights convention in the United States. For this convention Mrs. Stanton had drawn up her famous woman's bill of rights setting forth the inferior and unjust position of women in State, church, law and society, and resolu tions demanding redress, which were adopted. All of these de mands have since been extensively granted. One of them, intro
duced without Mrs. Mott's approval, was a resolution in favour of equal suffrage for women, which, when approved, became the first organized demand in the United States by women for the ballot. In 1850 she became associated with Susan B. Anthony and for 40 years the two worked together, each admirably supplementing the other, Mrs. Stanton writing, Miss Anthony managing affairs. In 1867-70 they co-operated in editing The Revolution, a women's rights newspaper. She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association from 1865 to 1893. With Miss Anthony and Mathilda Gage she wrote The History of Woman Suffrage (4 vol., 1887-1902). She died in New York city on Oct. 2, 1902.
See T. Stanton and H. S. Blatch, ed., Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences (1922).