Louis F. Post
Henry George's ablest lieutenant (1849–1928): editor of the Georgist weekly The Public, Cooper Union debater against J.B. Clark, co-founder of the U.S. Children's Bureau, and as Assistant Secretary of Labor the man who halted the 1920 Palmer-raid deportations.
Overview
Louis Freeland Post (1849–1928) was the single-tax movement's leading journalist- organizer after Henry George himself: editor of The Public (1898–1913), the movement's national weekly, and George's defender in set-piece debates — including the 1903 Cooper Union debate against John Bates Clark on the single tax.[1] With Julia Lathrop he helped found the U.S. Children's Bureau, and as Assistant Secretary of Labor under Wilson he canceled the bulk of the 1920 Palmer-raid deportation warrants, surviving an impeachment attempt for it — the movement's most senior federal officeholder.[2] He worked the Joseph Fels Lecture Bureau circuit alongside Nearing and Howe (Gaffney's account, essay Ch. 3).[1]
See Also
- Henry George · Single Tax · Narrative: The Single Tax
- John Bates Clark — the 1903 Cooper Union opponent
- Joseph Fels — the movement's funder
Sources
- Mason Gaffney & Fred Harrison, The Corruption of Economics (1994), Gaffney essay Ch. 3 (Cooper Union debate; Fels Lecture Bureau; Children's Bureau founding) — Heavy scan, per the wiki's book page (A-claims with book locators).
- Standard biographical record of Post's Labor Department tenure and the 1920 deportation cancellations (e.g., his memoir The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty, 1923). [VERIFY: exact dates and warrant counts on direct read before citing specifics.]