The foremost advocate of women’s rights in the nineteenth century was the daughter of a Johnston, New York, lawyer and congressman. In 1840 Elizabeth Cady married an antislavery orator, Henry Stanton. They had seven children.

In 1848 at Seneca Falls, New York, she formulated the first organized demand for woman suffrage in the United States. A New York statute based on her petitions granted property rights to married women. With Lucretia Mott, she led the first women’s rights convention in the U.S. and drafted its Declaration of Sentiments demanding that government of women without their consent must end.

In 1856 Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They united to create a movement for women’s rights that transformed social relations in America.

After the Civil War she toured the nation, speaking as the president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

In 1876 she and Matilda Gage wrote the Woman's Declaration of Rights, which Susan B. Anthony presented at the Philadelphia Exposition.

Between 1881 and 1885 came the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage coauthored by Anthony, Gage, and Stanton.

In 1895 her Woman’s Bible revealed organized religion’s idolatry—its devotion to a book consistently fostering male domination and the subordination of women.

A statue of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony now stands in the United States Capitol.