Louis Freeland Post

Background

Post, Louis Freeland was born on November 15, 1849 in Vienna, New Jersey, United States. Son of Eugene J. and Elizabeth (Freeland) Post.

Education

Public school education.

Career

Admitted to New York bar, 1870, Supreme Court of the United States Court, 1878, District of Columbia, 1921. Assistant United State Attorneys, New York, 1874-1875. Editorial writer on New York Daily Truth, 1879-1882.

Returned to law practice, 1883, and abandoned it, 1890.

Became interested in Henry George’s teachings in 1881, and thereafter advocated them. Ran for Congress in New York on labor ticket, 1882, for attorney general of New York on Greenback ticket, 1883, and for district attorney of New York on labor ticket, 1887.

Edited the Daily Leader (George campaign paper), 1886. Editor The Standard, 1891-1892.

Editor Cleveland Recorder, 1896-1897.

Founded, 1898, and, with Alice Thacher Post, editor The Public, Chicago (later public in New York), until 1913. Assistant secretary of labor, United States, 1913-1921. Chairman State Convention New York Labor Party, 1887, Single Tax National Conference, New York, 1890, Chicago, 1893.

Achievements

• Louis Freeland Post has been listed as a notable writer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member Chicago Board Education, 1906-1909. Member Chicago Charter Convention, 1906-1908. Swedenborgian.

Connections

Married Anna Johnson of Hackettstown, New Jersey, July 6, 1871 (died 1891). Married second, Alice Thacher, December 2, 1893. Children: Edna (deceased), Charles Johnson.

Father:

Eugene J. Post

Father:

Hackettstown Post

Mother:

Elizabeth (Freeland) Post

Spouse:

Alice Thacher

Spouse:

Anna Johnson of Hackettstown

child:

Edna Post (deceased)

child:

Charles Johnson Post