Why is Susan B. Anthony more honored/remembered than Elizabeth Cady Stanton?

by ckingdom

I know little about either, I was just under the impression that they worked together to secure women's suffrage. Yet, since leaving Upstate New York in High School, I haven't heard Cady Stanton's name mentioned once, while SBA is on currency. Did Anthony do more?

I've asked this before, and it got upvoted with no replies. Educate me!

PekingDuckDog

Susan B. Anthony was on the 50ยข stamp in the "Liberty" series, the definitives used on United States postage for about 12 years starting in 1954. The stamp was widely used, especially on packages, and most Americans who were around at that time would have seen it at some point. (This was before UPS served all 48 states, and before postage meters were widely used in local post offices.)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, meanwhile, shared a rather dull 1948 commemorative with Carrie Catt and Lucretia Coffin Mott, which to some extent got lost in the swarm of commemoratives issued that year.

Anthony and Stanton were friends and colleagues for most of their lives and were closely aligned politically. Stanton did at various points (generally later in her life) take on monogamy and organized religion and was more personally controversial and flamboyant, which may explain why Anthony, and not she, has gotten more instances of formal recognition from those who decide the subjects for our stamps and coins.