orig. Elizabeth Cady
born , Nov. 12, 1815, Johnstown, N.Y., U.S.
died Oct. 26, 1902, New York, N.Y.
U.S. social reformer and women's suffrage leader.
She graduated from Troy Female Seminary (1832), and in 1840 she married the abolitionist Henry B. Stanton and began working to secure passage of a New York law giving property rights to married women. She and Lucretia Mott organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention . She joined forces in 1850 with Susan B. Anthony in the woman suffrage movement, and later she coedited the women's-rights newspaper The Revolution (186870). In 1869 she became the founding president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.