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Louis F. Post

Louis Freeland Post (November 15, 1849 – January 11, 1928) was a prominent Georgist and the Assistant United States Secretary of Labor during the closing year of the Wilson administration, the period of the Palmer Raids and the First Red Scare, where he had responsibility for the Bureau of Immigration. Post considered the process to be a witch hunt and is credited with preventing many deportations and freeing many innocent people.

Louis Freeland Post

(1849-11-15)November 15, 1849
Hackettstown, New Jersey, U.S.

January 11, 1928(1928-01-11) (aged 78)
Washington, D.C., U.S.

Alice Thacher Post

Eugene J. Post
Elizabeth Freeland

Early life[edit]

Post was born in Hackettstown, New Jersey. His father was a "New York merchant." His mother was a member of the prominent Freeland family. He quit school at fourteen, opting for four years in a newspaper office and then entered law school. By the age of 25, he had a lucrative law practice in New York City in an office on Broadway across from City Hall. He fell back into the newspaper business, becoming associate and then editor of the "New York Truth." From there he followed his interest in social reform and first ran for office in 1882.[1]

An Account of the George-Hewitt Campaign in the New York Municipal Election of 1886. With Fred C Leubuscher. New York: John W. Lovell Company, 1887.

Election Reform: Governor Hill's Reasons for Vetoing the Australian Ballot Bill... New York: n.p, 1888.

Outlines of Louis F. Post's Lectures: On the Single Tax, Absolute Free Trade, the Labor Question, Progress and Poverty, the Land Question, the Elements of Political Economy, Socialism, Hard Times: With Illustrative Notes and Charts. New York: Sterling Library, 1894.

A Business Tendency. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1898].

Department Stores. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1898].

The Taxation of Land Values. Chicago: Social Reform Union, 1900.

The Single Tax: An Explanation, with Colored Charts and Illustrative Notes, of the Land, Labor, and Fiscal Reform Advocated. Cedar Rapids, IA: F. Vierth, 1900.

The Chinese Exclusion Act. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., 1901.

Landmarks of Liberty. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1901].

Success in Life. New York: Civic Publishing Co., 1902.

Ethics of Democracy: A Series of Optimistic Essays on the Natural Laws of Human Society. New York: Moody Publishing Co., 1903.

History of Municipal Affairs for the Past Two Years in Cleveland, O. Chicago: n.p., 1903.

Look Ahead! Cedar Rapids, IA: F. Vierth, 1903.

The Prophet Of San Francisco. Chicago : L.S. Dickey, 1904.

How to Get Good Street Car Service in Chicago. Chicago: n.p., 1904.

Our Advancing Postal Censorship. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., 1905.

The Traction Issue in the Municipal Election in Chicago. Chicago: n.p., 1905.

Could a Better System for Graft Be Devised? Chicago: Public Publishing Co., n.d. [c. 1905].

Our Despotic Postal Censorship. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., 1906.

Ethical Principles of Marriage and Divorce. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., 1906.

The Relation of Working Men to Protection and Free Trade in the United States. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

An Inquiry into the Institutional Causes of Crime. Cincinnati: Publicity Bureau, Joseph Fels Fund of America, n.d. [c, 1908].

Raymond Robins: A Biographical Sketch: With Newspaper Accounts of and Comments on Mr. Robins' Work. Chicago : L.S. Dickey, n.d. [1909?].

Assassination and Anarchism. Chicago: Public Publishing Co., n.d. [190-?].

Origin and Progress of the Single Tax Movement. New York: Manhattan Single Tax Club, n.d. [190-?].

Social Service. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910.

A Single Tax View of Trusts. Cedar Rapids, IA: F. Vierth, n.d. [c. 1910].

The Open Shop and the Closed Shop. Cincinnati: Publicity Bureau, Joseph Fels Fund of America, 1912.

Outlines of Lectures on the Taxation of Land Values. Chicago: The Public, 1912.

Taxation in Philadelphia. n.c.: n.p., 1913.

Trusts, Good and Bad. Chicago, The Public, 1914.

"Administrative Decisions in Connection with Immigration," American Political Science Review, vol. 10 no. 02 (May 1916), pp. 251–261.

Financing the War. New York: Joseph Fels International Commission, 1917.

Why We Are at War. New York: Joseph Fels International Commission, 1917.

(2nd edition, 1918)

The Basic Facts of Economics: A Common-Sense Primer for Advanced Students.

Land Tenure in the Jewish Commonwealth. New York: Zionist Organization of America, 1919.

"The Work of the Department of Labor of the United States during the War," Scientific Monthly, vol. 8 no. 4 (April 1919), pp. 331–335.

The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty: A Personal Narrative of an Historic Official Experience. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1923.

A "Carpet Bagger" in South Carolina. Lancaster, PA: Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 1925.

What is the Single Tax? New York: Vanguard Press, 1926.

Living a Long Life Over Again. n.c.: n.p., 1927.

The Prophet of San Francisco: Personal Memories & Interpretations of Henry George. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930.

A Non-Ecclesiastical Confession of Religious Faith: An Address. New York: Swedenborg Foundation, 1967.

Candelord, D. "The Public of Louis F. Post and Progressivism." Mid-America (1974) 56: 109–25.

Candeloro, Dominic. “Louis Post as a Carpetbagger in South Carolina: Reconstruction as a Forerunner of the Progressive Movement.” American Journal of Economics and Sociology 34#4 (1975): 423–432.

Candeloro, Dominic. "Louis F. Post and the Single Tax Movement, 1872–98." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 35.4 (1976): 415–430.

Candeloro, Dominic. "From the Narrow Single Tax to Broad Progressivism: The Intellectual Development of Louis F. Post, 1898‐1913." American Journal of Economics and Sociology 37.3 (1978): 325–336.

Candeloro, Dominic. "Louis F. Post and the Red Scare of 1920." Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives 2.1 (1979): 41–55.

Gengarelly, W. Anthony. "Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson and the Red Scare, 1919-1920." Pennsylvania History (1980): 310–330.

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Guariglia, Matthew. "Wrench in the Deportation Machine: Louis F. Post's Objection to Mechanized Red Scare Bureaucracy." Journal of American Ethnic History 38.1 (2018): 62–77.

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