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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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  1. A reformer and feminist who joined with Lucretia Mott in issuing the call for the first women's rights convention in America, which was held at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Stanton later worked in close partnership with Susan B. Anthony for women's suffrage. (See Seneca Falls Convention.)


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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, refused admission to anti-slavery congress, 5, 6. introduces woman’s suffrage resolution, 7.

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L., i, 223, 620;Stanton, E. Cady, i, 708, 836;St. Louis Convention, ii, 825—Somerville, Mary, to Mrs. P. W. Davis, ii, 440—Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, to Akron, O., Convention, i, 815; Cooper Institute Con., i, 860;Greeley, Horace, i, 738;Mott, Lucretia, iii, 45;Omaha Convention, iii, 244;Salem, O., Convention, i, 810;Smith, Gerrit, i, 839;Syracuse Convention, i, 848—Stanton, Harriot, to Nebraska voters, iii, 247—Stebbins, Catharine A. F., to Lucretia Mott, iii, 47—Stone, Lucy, to Susan B. Anthony, ii, 237, 919;to Elizabeth C. Stanton, ii, 234;to Salem, O., Convention, i, 813.Letters:

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 258, 272, 289.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, quoted, xiii, 200.

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Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 564 States: disorders under Articles of Confederation, 141 constitutions, federal limits on, 155 position after Civil War, 366f.

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