DONALD Trump will pardon a nineteenth century social reformer and suffragist, who was found guilty of voting.

On Tuesday, the president confirmed he will be pardoning Susan B. Anthony, who was found guilty of voting in 1872.

An all-male jury determined her fate and determined she had illegally voted in the presidential election that year.

Trump announced that he'll be pardoning her on the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment.

This gave American women the right to vote.

Trump took part in the signing of a proclamation today during an event in the Blue Room of the White House in Washington, DC.

“She was never pardoned. Did you know that? She was never pardoned,” he said. “What took so long?”

“She was guilty for voting and we’re going to be signing a full and complete pardon.”

Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, an anti-choice political group, and conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell were both in attendance while Trump spoke.

Despite her work for women's suffrage, Anthony has become a divisive figure because of unsubstantiated claims that she wrote an anti-abortion article.

This led anti-choice groups – like the Susan B. Anthony List – to claim that Anthony would have supported their cause.

The National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House in Rochester, New York, explained that this stems largely from an anonymous treatise.

The article appeared in The Revolution, a weekly, women’s rights newspaper Anthony published from 1868 to 1870 and was signed by a person called "A."

The piece entitled “Marriage and Maternity" likened terminating a pregnancy to "child-murder.”

The museum noted that multiple articles were signed off byan “S.B.A." rather than "A."

Another article by “A" disagreed with the paper's position on capital and labor.

This led to a debate in another issue where editors addressed the article's author as “Mr. A.”

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