Stanton,
Edwin McMasters 1814-69; U.S. statesman: secretary of war (1862-68)
Stanton,
Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902; U.S. reformer & suffragist leader
See Stanton in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(stănˈtən)
A city of southern California, a residential suburb in the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area. Population: 37,600.
, Edwin McMasters 1814-1869.
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.
, Elizabeth Cady 1815-1902.
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.