U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony, Indictment for Illegal Voting, 01/24/1873

The indictment charges Susan B. Anthony with “wrongfully and unlawfully” voting for a candidate for Congress from the City of Rochester, New York. 

On November 18, 1872 a deputy U.S. marshal arrested Susan B. Anthony for voting in the 1872 presidential election. She was indicted two months later for voting illegally on November 5, 1872, “being then and there a person of the female sex.” She was convicted in June and sentenced to pay a $100 fine and court costs.

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Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony! February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906 Convicted for Voting Suffragette Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. As planned, she was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States,” convicted by the State of New York, and fined $100. There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.––Susan B. Anthony, 1897 U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony, Record of Conviction, 06/28/1873
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Happy Birthday Susan B. Anthony!

February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906

Convicted for Voting

Suffragette Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. As planned, she was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States,” convicted by the State of New York, and fined $100.

There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers.––Susan B. Anthony, 1897

U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony, Record of Conviction, 06/28/1873

Presented to Congress on January 29, 1866, signers of this Petition for Universal Suffrage included pioneer suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and members of the former Women’s Loyal National League, Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. This exceptional combination of signatures represents some of the period’s foremost advocates for suffrage and abolition.
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Presented to Congress on January 29, 1866, signers of this Petition for Universal Suffrage included pioneer suffragists Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and members of the former Women’s Loyal National League, Ernestine Rose, Lucy Stone, and Antoinette Brown Blackwell. This exceptional combination of signatures represents some of the period’s foremost advocates for suffrage and abolition.

Pioneer suffragist and one of the leaders of the early American women’s rights movement, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born on November 12, 1815.  Shown here is an early petition she and Susan B. Anthony submitted to the Senate, apparently written in her own hand.  She passed away in 1902, before she could witness the results of the suffragettes’ long struggle.

Petition from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the United States Senate, ca. 12/1874