On February 11, 2011, Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York introduced the "Susan B. Anthony Birthday Act" (H.R.

Susan B. Anthony is known for her leadership in the long campaign for women's right to vote in the United States and also abroad.

[17] By the end of the Civil War, according to historian Ann D. Gordon, "Susan B. Anthony occupied new social and political territory.

She was emerging on the national scene as a female leader, something new in American history, and she did so as a single woman in a culture that perceived the spinster as anomalous and unguarded ... By the 1880s, she was among the senior political figures in the United States.

It was established nationally in 1920 with the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which had been introduced in Congress in 1878 by Senator Aaron A. Sargent, a friend of Anthony's.