stanton

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A habitational surname from either of these places
Any of several placenames in England from Saxon words meaning stone and enclosure
American public official who served as U.S. secretary of war (1862-1868). His dismissal by President Andrew Johnson and his subsequent refusal to leave office precipitated the impeachment of Johnson. American feminist and social reformer. She helped organize the first women's rights convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York (1848), for which she wrote a Declaration of Sentiments calling for the reform of discriminatory practices that perpetuated sexual inequality
United States suffragist and feminist; called for reform of the practices that perpetuated sexual inequality (1815-1902)

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Edwin M Stanton
born Dec. 19, 1814, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S. died Dec. 24, 1869, Washington, D.C. U.S. secretary of war (1862-68). A lawyer and abolitionist, he was appointed U.S. attorney general in 1861 and secretary of war in 1862. He ably administered the Union military effort in the American Civil War, and he later helped lead the investigation of Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Conflict with Pres. Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction policy and his alliance with the Radical Republicans led to Stanton's dismissal by Johnson, in deliberate violation of the Tenure of Office Act. Stanton refused to leave office, but he resigned after Johnson was acquitted in the impeachment trial
Edwin McMasters Stanton
born Dec. 19, 1814, Steubenville, Ohio, U.S. died Dec. 24, 1869, Washington, D.C. U.S. secretary of war (1862-68). A lawyer and abolitionist, he was appointed U.S. attorney general in 1861 and secretary of war in 1862. He ably administered the Union military effort in the American Civil War, and he later helped lead the investigation of Pres. Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Conflict with Pres. Andrew Johnson over Reconstruction policy and his alliance with the Radical Republicans led to Stanton's dismissal by Johnson, in deliberate violation of the Tenure of Office Act. Stanton refused to leave office, but he resigned after Johnson was acquitted in the impeachment trial
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
orig. Elizabeth Cady born , Nov. 12, 1815, Johnstown, N.Y., U.S. died Oct. 26, 1902, New York, N.Y. U.S. social reformer and women's suffrage leader. She graduated from Troy Female Seminary (1832), and in 1840 she married the abolitionist Henry B. Stanton and began working to secure passage of a New York law giving property rights to married women. She and Lucretia Mott organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention. She joined forces in 1850 with Susan B. Anthony in the woman suffrage movement, and later she coedited the women's-rights newspaper The Revolution (1868-70). In 1869 she became the founding president of the National Woman Suffrage Association