Mrs. Stanton, the chief architect of the women’s rights movement in the United States, was dynamic, intelligent and an unusually farsighted advocate for women’s suffrage, married women’s property rights, equal pay, and other issues of gender equality. Mrs. Stanton rose to national prominence as one of the first organizers of the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention, the first women’s rights convention held in the U.S. She worked closely in the battle for women’s rights with her friend and fellow activist Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Stanton was the first woman to run for U.S. Congress, and in July, 1876 at the National Centennial held in Philadelphia, together with Susan B. Anthony, she distributed a Declaration of Women’s Rights. On February 15, 1921 an eight-ton statue of Mrs. Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott was dedicated in the main rotunda of the US Capitol. Mrs. Stanton authored three volumes on the history of women’s rights, as well as an autobiography. Mrs. Stanton studied Greek, Latin and mathematics and played chess. As a very young woman she applied to Union College but was rejected because Union did not accept women. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was truly a woman of distinction.

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