ELIZABETH CADY STANTON 1815 1902 WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE LEADER AND WRITER STANTON ELIZABETH CADY 1815 1902 SUFFRAGE FEMINISM ELECTIONS AND POLITICS ELIZABETH STANTON ELIZABETH CADY STANTON WAS BORN IN JOHNSTOWN NEW YORK IN 1815 SHE GRADUATED FROM TROY FEMALE SEMINARY IN 1832 WITH LUCRETIA MOTT STANTON HELPED ORGANIZE THE FIRST NATIONAL WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION IN SENECA FALLS NEW YORK IN 1848 THREE YEARS LATER SHE BEGAN WORKING WITH SUSAN B ANTHONY TO CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS INCLUDING THE RIGHT TO VOTE STANTON ALSO SUPPORTED THE ABOLITION MOVEMENT BUT WAS DISAPPOINTED THAT AFTER THE CIVIL WAR WOMEN'S ISSUES RECEIVED LESS ATTENTION THAN ISSUES AFFECTING AFRICAN AMERICANS IN 1869 STANTON BECAME THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION A POSITION SHE HELD UNTIL 1890 IN 1895 SHE PUBLISHED THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE WOMAN'S BIBLE WHICH IS CRITICAL OF THE WAY WOMEN WERE PORTRAYED IN THE BIBLE IN 1898 STANTON PUBLISHED HER AUTOBIOGRAPHY EIGHTY YEARS AND MORE AS WELL AS THE SECOND VOLUME OF THE WOMAN'S BIBLE SHE DIED IN NEW YORK AT THE AGE OF 86
