Stanton

A city of southern California, a residential suburb in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area. Population: 37,600.

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.