'When you're asking for a pardon, you're saying, I did something wrong.' Susan B. Anthony may not have wanted presidential clemency, even though it was likely available to her during her own lifetime, historians say.
"This was brought up a week ago, and I was so surprised that it was never done before," he mused, announcing he would take the step later in the day."What took so long?"The answer, it turns out, is that Anthony may not have wanted presidential clemency in the first place -- even though historians say it was likely available to her during her own lifetime -- both because it would have admitted guilt and because she wore her conviction with pride.
"She was proud of her arrest to draw attention to the cause for women's rights, and never paid her fine," she said."Let her rest in peace."Anthony never married or had children, so has no direct descendants who manage her estate or rights. That has largely fallen on the Susan B. Anthony House in Rochester, which was established in 1945 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.
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