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.
