Elizabeth Cady Stanton, USA (1815-1902)
Women's rights leader and feminist pioneer Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born in Johnstown, New York. With several other women, she called the famous Seneca Falls Convention in July 1848, drew up its "Declaration of Sentiments", and took the lead in proposing that women be granted the right to vote. She continued to write and lecture on women's rights and other reforms of the day; she was one of the leaders in promoting women's rights (such as divorce) and the right to vote in particular.
During the Civil War she concentrated her efforts on abolishing slavery, but afterward she became even more outspoken in promoting female suffrage. She became publisher of The Revolution (1868-69), a militant weekly paper, and in 1869, with Susan B. Anthony, she formed the National Woman Suffrage Association, of which she was the first President (1869-90). She became one of the chief proponents of a woman suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She and Susan B. Anthonycollaborated on the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-86). When the two leading woman suffrage organisations united as the National American Woman Suffrage Association, she served as its first President (1890-92).