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Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Date of birth – November 12, 1815)


 * Objective:**

My name is Elizabeth Cady Stanton. I'm the women's rights activist, editor, feminist and writer. Also I'm the first who organized woman's right and woman's suffrage movement in the United States. My inspiration for all my activities was taken from my own life as a wife, housekeeper, physician, and spiritual guide. Anxious look of the majority of women, how they treated by the modern society impressed me with a strong feeling that some active measures should be taken to change this horrible mistake. "My experience at the World Anti-slavery Convention, all I had read of the legal status of women, and the oppression I saw everywhere, together swept across my soul, intensified now by many personal experiences. It seems as if all the elements had conspired to impel me to some onward step. I could not see what to do or where to begin - my only thought was a public meeting for protest and discussion".


 * Education:**

I studied Johnstown Academy, where I studied Latin, Greek and mathematics until the age of 16. I wanted to enter Union College but they were taken only men. So I had no choice how to graduate from the Emma Willard's Troy Female Seminary in 1832.


 * Accomplishments**:


 * I am the first president of the National Women Suffrage Association.
 * I drafted the Seneca Falls Decoration(Declaration of Sentiments) which I present at the first women's rights convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York
 * I was invited to speak at a second women's rights convention in Rochester, as a reformer.
 * was a sponsor of National Women's Rights Convention in 1850, but unfortunately I could not perform my speech there because of pregnancy so I led to read my speech in my stead
 * I wrote and co-authored, //The History of Woman Suffrage// and //The Woman's Bible//
 * I'm also the author of //Eighty Years or More//


 * References:**

Henry Brewster Stanton - my dear husband. I participate in all Henry's activities like political meetings where I met a lot of interesting people like Frederick Douglass, William lloyd Garrison, Louisa Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson. My husband went with me to the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London. He always supports me in everything what I do and tries to help.

Lucretia Mott - my good friend who inspired me for the beginning of the woman's right movement.

Martha Coffin Wright - helped me and Lucretia to organize the first women's rights convention.

Susan B. Anthony - second me. I'm really grateful for all what she did for me. Having a family is not an easy task which takes a lot of time and gives me no chance to travel a lot all over the country and to represent our convention. We complement each other I'm better like an orator and writer while Susan is the movement's organizer and tactician.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Cady_Stanton http://www.east-buc.k12.ia.us/00_01/100/sm/sm.htm http://www.biography.com/articles/Elizabeth-Cady-Stanton-9492182