Elizabeth Cady Stanton (12 November 1815 to 26 October 1902), was born in Johnstown, New York, was an American

social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement. Her Declaration of Sentiments, presented at the Seneca Falls Convention held in 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, is often credited with initiating the first organized women's rights and women's suffrage movements in the United States.

Unlike many women of her era, Stanton was formally educated. She attended Johnstown Academy, where she studied Latin, Greek, mathematics, religion, science, French, and writing. She studied Greek with a local minister. Her knowledge of the law began at home, in conversations with her father.

Stanton addressed various issues pertaining to women beyond voting rights. Her concerns included women's parental and custody rights, property rights, employment and income rights,

divorce, the economic health of the family, and birth control. She was also an outspoken supporter of the 19th-century temperance movement.

Elizabeth Cady married Henry Stanton in 1840. Her husband Henry Stanton was an abolitionist, journalist, antislavery orator and member of the "Secret Six" and, after his marriage to Elizabeth Cady, an attorney. The couple was married in 1840, with Elizabeth Cady. The couple had seven children.

She best known for their joint work on behalf of women's suffrage, She wrote The Declaration of calling for changes in law and educational, legal, political, economic - to elevate womens demanding the right to vote. Sentiments, society social and status, and

Cady Stanton met Susan B. Anthony in 1851, and the two quickly began collaboration on speeches, articles, and books. Cady Stanton's intellectual and organizational partnership with Anthony dominated the womans movement for over half a century.

An outstanding orator with a radical mind, Cady Stanton lectured, wrote speeches and, with Matilda Gage authored the "Declaration of Rights," which Anthony delivered at the Philadelphia Centennial celebration in 1876.

Along with numerous articles on the subject of women and religion, Cady Stanton published the Woman's Bible (1895, 1898), in which she voiced her belief in a secular state and urged women to recognize how religious orthodoxy and masculine theology obstructed their chances to achieve self-sovereignty. She also wrote an autobiography, Eighty Years and More, about the great events and work of her life.

Stanton also developed early her demand that women's individualism be guaranteed within marriage. A married woman's right to property and wages should be inalienable, and her right to exit from an abusive or destructive marriage assured. Her right to decide with whom and when to bear children should be inviolate. She died at home in New York, leaving unmailed a letter to Theodore Roosevelt seeking his endorsement of woman suffrage.

Stanton died in 1902 having authored both The Woman's Bible and her autobiography, along with many articles and pamphlets concerning female suffrage and women's rights.