Theodore Stanton was the son of Henry Stanton, editor of the New York Sun, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a social activist, abolitionist, and pioneer of the women’s movement in the United States. Theodore graduated from Cornell in 1874 and then lived in Paris for over 50 years as a publisher’s representative and journalist for the Associated Press and the New York Tribune. He was a member of the IOC from 1900-04, the second American member, attending one IOC Session, although he never missed one. Stanton was an early proponent of women competing in the Olympics, a view not shared by Pierre de Coubertin, although the two remained friends. Stanton returned to the United States to open the library at Rutgers University in New Jersey, which was founded in his mother’s memory, but he died shortly before the opening ceremony of the library. Following his mother’s passions, he authored The Women Question in Europe in 1884.
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