[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1215 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1215

   Honoring the life and achievements of Lucretia Mott and the 140th 
                       anniversary of her death.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 12, 2020

Ms. Dean submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
                   Committee on Oversight and Reform

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                               RESOLUTION


 
   Honoring the life and achievements of Lucretia Mott and the 140th 
                       anniversary of her death.

Whereas November 11, 2020, marks the 140th anniversary of the passing of 
        Lucretia Mott in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania;
Whereas Lucretia Mott was born in January 1793, in Nantucket, Massachusetts;
Whereas, in 1833, Lucretia Mott was chosen as president of the Philadelphia 
        Female Anti-Slavery Society after traveling around the country giving 
        lectures on religion, slavery abolition, temperance, and peace;
Whereas, in 1840, Lucretia Mott met Elizabeth Cady Stanton at a World Anti-
        Slavery Conference, and because of their sex were denied the rights to 
        participate, thus beginning their fights to advance the rights of women;
Whereas, in 1848, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton launched the American 
        women's rights movement at the Seneca Falls Convention to discuss the 
        social, civil, and religious rights of women;
Whereas as a founder of the Seneca Falls Convention, Lucretia Mott, along with 
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Martha C. Wright, and Mary Ann McClintock, wrote 
        the Declaration of Sentiments, which stated that ``all men and women are 
        created equal'', and called for the extension of basic civil rights to 
        women, including the rights to hold property and to vote;
Whereas Lucretia Mott, with Elizabeth Cady Stanton, founded the organized 
        women's rights movement in the United States;
Whereas, in 1857, Lucretia Mott and her family moved to a farm called Roadside 
        in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, which became a station in the Underground 
        Railroad for fugitive slaves to stop at before continuing their journeys 
        up North;
Whereas, in 1876, Mott represented the National Woman Suffrage Association and 
        called for the impeachment of United States leaders due to taxation 
        without representation; and
Whereas, on November 11, 1880, Lucretia Mott passed away at 87 years of age: 
        Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) honors the life of Lucretia Mott and her achievements 
        as a suffragette and abolitionist; and
            (2) honors and, on behalf of the United States, expresses 
        deep appreciation for the outstanding and important service of 
        Lucretia Mott to her country.
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