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A wealthy couple name Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady gave birth to Elizabeth Cady Stanton in Johnstown, New York, on November 12, 1815. She had three brothers before she came to life. However, she also had two sisters.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton married to an active abolitionist, Henry Brewster Stanton. When she was getting married to Henry, she already observed enough about the legal relationships between men and women. After the wedding, Elizabeth and Henry Stanton sailed to England to attent The World Anti-Slavery Convention.
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In 1848, Elizabeth Cady Stanton decided to move from Boston to Seneca Falls, New York and raised her seven childrens. The country life bored Elizabeth. When she moved there, the time for the conention has come.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton an Lucretia Mott called for a women's rights convention to be held in Seneca Falls, New York, at Wesleyan Methodist Church.
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Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton demanded the right to vote. They wrote a Declaration of Sentiments based on the Declaration of Independence. Which spread from New England to Indiana.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton worked in a close partnership with Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth often served as the writer and Susan as the strategist.
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During the the Civil War (1861–65), Stanton and her ally Susan B. Anthony created the National Woman's Loyal League to build support which became the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution, and ended slavery in the United States. Their cause extended beyond women's issues: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the Women's Nation Loyal League and had 400,000 people's signatures to abolish slavery.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, and Lucretia Mott established the American Equal Rights Association. In this year, the organization became active in Kansas where Negro suffrage and woman suffrage were decided by popular vote. However, they both were being rejected at the polls.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony founded the National Woman Suffrage Association in 1869, and Elizabeth served as group president until 1890.
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In 1878, Elizabeth Cady Stanton convinced Senator Aarom A. Sargent
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The first three volumes of the History of Women's Suffrage were edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.
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In 1892, Elizabeth Cady Stanton gace a speech urging woman to take responsilbility for their own lives.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton autobiography, Eighty Years and More was published.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton went blind in 1899. However, she still continued to dictate articles and revise speeches.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton died at the age of 87 due to heart failure in New York. Therefore, her body is now at The Woodlawn Cemetary (Since 1863). However, before she died she left be hind a ltter to Theodore Roosevelt. In it, she asked for the president's support for woman suffrage.
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The admendment finally won congressional approval and became law in 1920.
