Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12th, 1815 in Johnstown, New York. Her parents were Daniel Cady and Margaret Livingston Cady. Her father was a prominent Federalist attorney who served a term on the United States Congress and later become a circuit court judge , in 1847 he became a New York Supreme Court justice. His involvement in politics introduced Elizabeth to law at an early age and planted the seeds that made her interest in legal and social activism greater. The early exposure to law caused Cady to realize how different men were treated than women, specifically married women. She found that married women were basically dead in the eyes of the law, no income, no property, no employment, custody rights over their children, divorce laws, and more. She wanted to change the lives of women. She married abolitionist Henry Brewster Stanton in 1840. Also in 1840, as an active abolitionist herself, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was outraged when the World's Anti-Slavery Convention in London,denied official standing to women delegates. Angered that women were being discriminated against so greatly she organized the first Women's Rights Convention in 1848. The Seneca Falls Convention was held in Seneca Falls, New York. Over 300 people, including about 40 men came to the convention to discus the discrimination against women. Stanton also wrote the Declaration of Sentiments which listed the unfair acts against women. as well. She and Susan B. Anthony were colleagues throughout the whole affair. They founded the National Women's Suffrage Association. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is best known for her long contribution to the woman suffrage struggle, she was also active and effective in winning property rights, equal guardianship of children, and liberalized divorce laws for married women. These reforms made it possible for women to leave marriages that were abusive of the wife, the children, and the economic health of the family. Elizabeth Cady Stanton died in 1902, nearly 20 years before women really earned the right to vote, but without her women would have never gained the courage to speak out for their rights all over the world.