Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her daughter
Harriot.
Born
November 13, 1815(1815-11-13)
Johnstown, New York
Died
October 26, 1902 (aged 86)
New York, New York
Occupation Writer, suffragist and women’s
rights activist
Spouse(s)
Henry Brewster Stanton
(1805-1887)
(married 1840-1887)
Children
Daniel Cady Stanton
(1842-1891)
Henry Brewster Stanton, Jr.
(1844-1903)
Gerrit Smith Stanton
(1845-1927)
Theodore Weld Stanton
(1851-1925)
Margaret Livingston Stanton
Lawrence (1852-1938?)
Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch
(1856-1940)
Robert Livingston Stanton
(1859-1920)
Parents
Daniel Cady (1773-1859)
Margaret Livingston Cady
(1785-1871)
Relatives
Gerrit Smith, cousin
Col. James Livingston,
grandfather
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
(November 12,
1815 – October 26, 1902) was an American
social activist abolitionist, and leading figure
of the early woman’s movement. Her Declar-
ation of Sentiments, presented at the first
women’s rights convention held in 1848 in
Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited
with initiating the first organized woman’s
rights and woman’s suffrage movements in
the United States.[1]
Before Stanton narrowed her political fo-
cus almost exclusively to women’s rights, she
was an active abolitionist together with her
husband, Henry Brewster Stanton and cous-
in, Gerrit Smith. Unlike many of those in-
volved in the women’s rights movement,
Stanton addressed a number of issues per-
taining to women beyond voting rights. Her
concerns included women’s parental and cus-
tody rights, property rights, employment and
income rights, divorce laws, the economic
health of the family, and birth control.[2] She
was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-
century temperance movement.
After the American Civil War, Stanton’s
commitment to female suffrage caused a
schism in the women’s rights movement
when she, along with Susan B. Anthony, de-
clined to support passage of the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments to the United
States Constitution. She opposed giving ad-
ded legal protection and