Family Life~
Elizabeth Cady Stanton excelled in school and graduated in 1832. In 1840, Elizabeth Stanton married Henry Stanton. The family eventually moved to Seneca Falls, New York. Activist~
Stanton organized the Seneca Falls Convention with Lucretia Mott. She met Susan B. Anthony in the 1850s and in 1869, Susan and Stanton teamed up to create the National Woman's Suffrage Association (NWSA). When the NWSA merged with the American Woman's Suffrage Association to create the National American Woman's Suffrage Association, Stanton was named the president. She gave lectures and speeches around the nation and wrote a series of books called the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-1886). She was president of the organization for two years, pushing to for an amendment passed, as well as urging state governments to support woman's suffrage. |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton with two of her three sons in 1848. Library of Congress.
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