Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first concerted demand for women’s suffrage in the United States. She helped to organize the Seneca Falls Convention, where she delivered her Declaration of Sentiments, which called for women to petition for their rights.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, née Elizabeth Cady, (born November 12, 1815, Johnstown, New York, U.S. died October 26, 1902, New York, New York), American leader in the women’s rights movement who in 1848 formulated the first concerted demand for women’s suffrage in the United States. Elizabeth Cady received a superior education at home, at the Johnstown Academy, and at Emma Willard’s Troy Female Seminary, from which she graduated in 1832. While studying law in the office of her father, Daniel Cady, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives and later a New York Supreme Court judge, she learned of the discriminatory