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

Nationality: American
Birth Date: 12 Nov 1815
Death Date: 26 Oct 1902
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"Solitude of Self," Address before the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress, January 18, 1892

Elizabeth Cady Stanton addresses the Committee of the Judiciary of the United States Congress in January of 1892.