Post, Louis F. (Louis Freeland), 1849-1928

Journalist, lawyer, and public official.

From the description of Louis Freeland Post papers, 1864-1940 (bulk 1900-1922). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71062290

Biographical Note

• 1849, Nov. 15: Born, Sussex County, N.J.
• 1864 - 1865 : Printer’s apprentice, Hackettstown (N.J.) Gazette
• 1866: Worked on the Brooklyn Union
• 1867: Entered New York, N.Y., law office of Thomas, Glassey & Blake
• 1870: Admitted to the bar
• 1870 - 1871 : Clerk to David T. Corbin, U.S. attorney, Charleston, S.C.
• 1871: Took stenographic records at Ku Klux Klan trials in South Carolina
• 1871: Married Anna Johnson (died 1891)
• 1874 - 1875 : Assistant U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York
• 1875: Formed law partnership of Lockwood & Post
• 1880 - 1882 : Editorial writer, New York Truth
• 1886: Editor, New York Leader
• 1886 - 1892 : Served successively as editorial writer, news editor, and editor of the New York Standard (weekly paper of the single-tax movement)
• 1892 - 1895 : Lectured widely on the single tax
• 1893: Married Alice Thacher (died 1947)
• 1896 - 1898 : Editorial writer, Cleveland Recorder
• 1898 - 1913 : With his wife established and edited Chicago Public
• 1903: Published Ethics of Democracy. New York: Moody Publishing Co.
• 1904: Published The Prophet of San Francisco. Chicago: L. S. Dickey
• 1906: Published Ethical Principles of Marriage and Divorce. Chicago: Public Publishing Co.
• 1906 - 1909 : Appointed to Chicago, Ill., school board
• 1913 - 1920 : Served as assistant secretary of labor
• 1920: Attempt to have him impeached as assistant secretary of labor failed
• 1923: Published The Deportations Delirium of Nineteen-Twenty. Chicago: C. H. Kerr
• 1926: Published What Is the Single Tax? New York: Vanguard Press
• 1927: Published The Basic Facts of Economics. Washington, D.C.: [Columbian Print. Co.]
• 1928, Jan. 10: Died, Washington, D.C.
• 1930: Posthumous publication of The Prophet of San Francisco. New York: Vanguard Press

From the guide to the Louis F. Post Papers, 1864-1940, (bulk 1900-1922), (Manuscript Division Library of Congress)