Elizabeth Cady Stanton's Campaign for U.S. House of Representatives, 1866

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

In 1848 Elizabeth Cady Stanton initiated the call for a woman's rights meeting at Seneca Falls, New York. The members of this historic convention issued the Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions, among them the demand for woman suffrage. Historian Ann D. Gordon writes that, in the early 1860s, Stanton "gave new direction to the women's rights movement by making it a vehicle for expressin...