Who was an advocate for the humane treatment of the mentally ill and the first generation of mental asylums built in the United States in the middle of the 1800s?

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Dorothea Dix was a reformer and advocate for the humane treatment of the mentally ill. She successfully campaigned for the establishment of the first generation of mental asylums in the United States in the mid-1800s. Mary Whiton Calkins was a psychologist and philosopher, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a suffragist and women's rights advocate, and Clara Barton was a nurse and humanitarian who founded the American Red Cross.

Who Was an Advocate for the Humane Treatment of the Mentally