Alice Thacher Post

Alice Thacher Post (June 8, 1853 – February 2, 1947) was an American editor, suffragist, and pacifist. She was a founding officer of the Woman's Peace Party. She was married to Louis F. Post, who was Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Wilson administration.

Early life Alice Thacher was born in Boston, the daughter of Thomas Thacher and Catherine Worcester Thacher. Her great-grandfather was also a noted clergyman and pacifist, Noah Worcester.

Career Thacher worked as an editor at The New Church Messenger, a Swedenborgian publication based in New Jersey, and The New Earth, before her marriage in 1893. Working with her husband, she was managing editor of The Public, a political weekly based in Chicago and in New York, from 1893 to 1913. She also wrote and published poetry and articles in other magazines.

Post moved to Washington, D.C., when her husband became Assistant Secretary of Labor in 1913. She was a founding member of the Woman's Peace Party, vice-president of the American Proportional Representation League, and a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League, among other suffrage, peace, social justice organizations. She addressed a meeting of the Women's Single Tax League of Washington in 1913, proposing that suffrage laws should consider the rights of children to representation at the ballot. She was an American delegate to the International Congress of Women in 1915 when it was held at the Hague, and in 1919 when it was held in Zürich; she also attended the 1924 meeting of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in Washington, D.C. Her papers are in the Louis F. Post Papers, Library of Congress. Her correspondence is also a significant part of the WILPF records at the University of Colorado.