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A Biographical History of the Georgist Movement



“The grey heads and bald heads are in the majority. The problem that confronts those of us who want the torch held up in the future, is to fill up the ranks. In order to do that many things must be done, but we must not depend on the old or middle-aged. Somehow or other we must devise a way to reach the minds of the young people – when their minds are open, when they are ready for new truths.”

Mr. Rose, of Kansas City, Missouri (from a speech at the 1928 Henry George Foundation Congress, Chicago. Reprinted in: Land and Freedom, September-October 1928)


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United States
Name Place(s) of Residence Comments
Dobbin,
James T.
California
(San Diego)
  • 1960 - Teacher, Henry George School
Doblin,
Benjamin
New York
(New York)
  • 1864 - Born
  • 1886 - First read Progress and Poverty, given to him by Morris Van Veen
  • 1890 - Began making Henry George's clothes (owned a clothing store at 842 Broadway)
  • 1910 - Attended Single Tax Conference, New York, NY, November
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
  • 1936 - Died, 4 July
Doblin,
Henry
...
  • 1890 - Authored a play, "The Shatchen," and was an active Single Taxer
Dodge,
A.H.
California
(San Francisco)
  • 19-- - Became active supporter of the Single Tax
  • 1937 - Died
Dodson,
Edward J.

Photograph
New Jersey
(Cherry Hill)
Doheny,
Joan
New Jersey
(River Vale)
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
Dohlin,
Benjamin
New York
(New York)
  • 1904 - Serving as President, Manhattan Single Tax Club
  • 1904 - Letter regarding Henry George, New York Times, 27 December. Quote: "Henry George was never in theory or fact a Socialist. So far was this from the truth that his extreme individualist views ... were the subjects of bitter attack by Socialists during his whole public career."
Dohogne,
Leo
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1992 - Serving as Auditor, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • 1992 - Elected trustee, Henry George School, Chicago
Dolan,
Thomas J.
Ohio
(Cleveland)
  • 1928 - Co-editor, and Publisher, The Ohio Singletaxer
Dolmage,
Edith
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1949 - Member, Henry George Woman's Club
Domke,
David
New York
(New York)
  • 198- - Joins staff, Henry George School
  • 1993 - Article, "The Physiocrats: the First Single Taxers," Henry George Newsletter, March/April
  • 1994 - Article, "The south Sea Bubble," Henry George News, January/February and March/April
  • 1995 - Article, "Louis F. Post: Philosopher of Social Science," Henry George News, May/June
  • 1996 - Article, "Paine's Two Revolutions," Henry George News, May/June
  • 1999 - Article, "Reclaiming the Commons: the Diggers and the Covenant of Earth," Henry George News, September-October
Domnick,
Ruth
New York
(New York)
  • Daughter of Simon Levey, who campaigned for Henry George
  • 1953 - Died, May 25
Domoe,
Earl
Ohio
(Toledo)
  • 1953 - Attended Henry George School conference, Lakeside, Ohio; became Georgist after taking a course in Toledo under Verlin Gordon
  • 1955 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Baldwin-Wallace College, Berea, OH
  • 1956 - Letters, Henry George News, February, July
Donahue,
Susan S.
New York
(New York)
  • 1952 - Hired as executive secretary at Henry George School
Donahoe,
Thomas J.
Pennsylvania
(Pittsburgh)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
Donaldson,
Grace
New York
(Gowanda)
  • 1927 - Active in Commonwealth Land Party
  • 1930 - Letter, proposing that Georgists support Norman Thomas and Socialists, as Thomas put the public collection of rent at the top of his program, Land and Freedom, January-February
Donaldson,
Harry W.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1931 - Elected to the board of the new Single Tax League
  • 1933 - Book, The Plutocratic Pauper
  • 1936 - Member, Committee on Research
Donaldson,
Oren M.
California
(Hollywood)
  • 18xx - Born, Chicago, Illinois
  • 19xx - Moved to Hollywood, California
  • 19xx - Pamphlet, Common Honesty
  • 19xx - Published Holly Leaves for ten years
  • 1933 - Died, 3 july (age 67)
Donalson,
(Mrs.)
...
  • 1932 - Agreed to serve on the Advisory Committee of the Henry George School, New York
Donlon,
P.H.
Iowa
(Ruthven)
  • 1926 - Letter, regarding farm problems, Land and Freedom, November-December
  • 1927 - Letter, complimenting Land and Freedom, January-February
Donnelly,
Joseph A.
...
  • 1945 - Elected President, Henry George School, Hartford, Connecticut
Donovan,
Cornelius
New York
(New York)
  • 19-- - Became member of the Manhattan Single Tax Club
  • 1936 - Died
Donovan,
John J.
Massachusetts
(Lawrence)
  • 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Lawrence Single Tax Club
Doody,
Patrick
New York
(New York)
  • 1886 - Serving as Chairman of the Henry George Labor party, Third Assembly District. Quote: "He [Henry George] is as good as elected. Fifty thousand votes will put him in office, and the union men alone should poll more than that number..." New York Times, 29 September
  • 1888 - Led the move to expel Henry George from the United Labor Party, May
Dorenkott,
Jim
California
(San Diego)
  • 19-- - Joined staff of Basic Economic Education
  • 1984 - Attended International Union conference, Cambridge, England
  • 1987 - Article, "A World Beyond War Requires Economic Justice," San Diego Newsline, 21 July
  • 1988 - Attended CGO conference, Atlanta
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2003 - On staff of Matt Gonzalez, Green Party candidate for mayor of San Francisco
Dorn,
Otto K.
New York
(New York)
(Mt. Vernon)
  • 1896 - Completed economics course in Cleveland taught by Louis F. Post
  • 1910 - Became active in effort to amend Ohio state constitution
  • 1918 - Letter, Everyman, April, in which he wrote: "Here's my bit for The Great Adventure. No receipt -- save the postage."
  • 1920 - Relocated to New York City
  • 1921 - Residing in Cleveland, Ohio, but spent much of his time in New York City on behalf of his business
  • 1930 - Appointed acting director, Henry George School
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY; September
  • 1935-1936 - Business manager, Henry George School
  • 193- - Elected trustee, Henry George School
  • 1937 - Elected to the board, Robert Schalkenbach Foundation
  • 1937 - Serving as Secretary-Treasurer, The Freeman Corp.
  • 1938 - Article, "Dirty Foreigners by an Imaginary Line," The Freeman, December
  • 1941 - Address, "Historical Development of the Henry George School," at Henry George School, 28 March
  • 1941 - Attended Henry George School convention, New York, NY; 9-11 July
  • 1945 - Reviewed Gilbert Tucker's book, The Self-Supporting City, in Henry George News, May
  • 1945 - Letter, regarding high fees charged by land owners to trappers in Louisiana, Henry George News, June
  • 1948 - Vice Presient, board of trustees, Henry George School
  • 1954 - Hosted anniversary banquet, New York City
  • 1958 - Died, 29 December, age 83
Doty,
Edward W.
Ohio
(Cleveland)
  • 1912 - Owned and operated a bank; served two terms in the Ohio legislature and as Parliamentarian for the Constitutional Convention of 1912
  • 190x - Active in the Single Tax movement with Tom L. Johnson
  • 1935 - Died, 12 November (age 72)
Doubleday,
Eben Stillman
New York
(Brooklyn)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
  • 1931 - Died, 9 May (age 91)
Doubleday,
Ella T.
New York
(Brooklyn)
  • 1926 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, Philadelphia
Doubleday,
Robert S.
Washington
(Tacoma)
Dougherty,
Wilma
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 1941 - Secretary to Henry George School Alumni Finance Committee
Douglas,
Paul H.
Illinois
  • 1929 - Address, on "the enlightened currents of thought in American universities," at meeting of the Chicago Single Tax Club, January
  • 19-- - Elected to U.S. Senate
  • 1966 - Appointed by Lyndon Johnson to the National Commission on Urban Problems
  • 1966 - Excerpts, from the minority report of the National Commission on Urban Problems
  • 1966 - retired from U.S. Senate
  • 1970 - Photograph
  • 1971 - Article, The Single Tax, an excerpt from In the Fullness of Time: The Memoirs of Paul H. Douglas
Douty,
Judith
Pennsylvania
(Wynnewood)
  • 1994 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Fairhope, Alabama
Dowden,
Palmer J. Page
California
(San Diego)
  • 1960 - Teacher, Henry George School
Dowe,
W.A.
...
  • 1992 - Letter, Georgist Journal, Autumn
Dowell,
R.E.
South Dakota
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Downs,
Anthony

Photograph

...
  • 199- - Appointed Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Doye,
John M.
Colorado
(Denver)
  • Profession: printer
  • 19-- - Became active in Single Tax movement and provided significant financial support
  • 1927 - Died, 30 September (age 69)
Doyle,
Richard D.
Indiana
(South Bend)
  • 1977 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin (was a state representative at the time)
Drake,
Francis
California
  • 1917 - Editor, The Citizen, Union Labor's organ in Southern California
  • 1917 - Letter, Everyman, October, in which he wrote: "A few of the uninformed may still be confused, but the heart of the people of California, and assuredly the heart and headof Labor, are for The Great Adventure's demand for a free and open earth. Labor is learning that high prices and low wages rest on Land Monopoly."
    1918 - Letter, Everyman, March, in which he wrote: "Labor can be depended upon to support the single tax amendment. We all understand its main feature well enough: we want the land system changed and the earth thrown open to labor."
Drake,
Robert
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 2003 - Trustee, Henry George School, Chicago
  • 2005 - Prepared a modernized version of Progress and Poverty
  • 2005 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August
  • 2006 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, Evanston, IL, July
  • 2006 - Served as primary editor of a modernized edition of Progress and Poverty
  • 2007 - Attended Council of Georgist Organizations conference, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, July
  • 2009 - Died, 12 May
Dressendorfer,
J.E.
Illinois
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
Drew,
Daniel V.
---
  • 1930 - Delegate to Henry George Congress, San Francisco
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Drew,
H.W. (Mrs.)
Iowa
(Manchester)
  • 1945 - Letter accompanying an order for Progress and Poverty, Henry George News, August
Dreyfuss,
Ralph M.
New York
(New York)
  • 1940-1964 - Teacher, Henry George School, NY
  • 1944 - Teaching course on international trade
  • 1953 - Member, S.A.G.E.
  • 1959 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • 1964 - Died, October 12
Dubin,
Joseph W. (Prof.)
...
  • 1944 - Address, "The Philosophy of Henry George," to the Philadelphia Rationalist Society, 4 November
DuBois,
Amalia E.
New Jersey
(Glen Ridge)
  • Sister of Frederick C. Leubuscher; active in National Woman Suffrage Assn.
  • 1929 - Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
  • 1936 - Letter, on the value of international gatherings, Land and Freedom, September-October
  • 1940 - Donated a large quantity of literature to The School of Democracy
  • 1959 - died, age 99
DuBois,
L. (Mrs.)
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1917 - Letter, Everyman, October, in which she wrote: "The Great Adventure is in line with evolution. I believe it will win next time. Are we afraid of practising the Golden Rule?"
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY; September
DuBois,
S.E. (Miss)
New Jersey
(Bayonne)
  • 1929 - Attended International Union conference, Edinburgh, Scotland
DuBois,
W.E.B.
...
  • 1940 - Quote: "... the attitude of Harvard toward labor was on the whole contemptuous and condemnatory. ...Karl Marx was hardly mentioned and Henry George given but tolerant notice." p. 583, Ark of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race
  • 1944 - Henry George, excerpted from a commencement address delivered at Talladega College, Alabama; 5 June
  • 1958 - Address, The Negro and Socialism, at a symposium entitled "Toward a Socialist America"
  • 1970 - Quote: "What would Henry George have said in 1933 after airplane and radio and mass production, turbine and electricity had come?" From W.E.B. DuBois Speaks: Speeches and Addresses, 1920-1963, p.146
DuBois,
William Bradford
New Jersey
(Bayonne)
  • 18-- - born, Saugerties, New York
  • 1890 - Serving as Chairman, Bayonne Single Tax Committee
  • 1928 - Died, 17 June (age 74)
Dudderar,
Thomas D.
New Jersey
  • 1944 - Taught Science of Political Economy, Dover
Duddon,
Arthur P.
Pennsylvania
(Bryn Mawr)
  • Profession: Professor of History, Bryn Mawr College
  • 19-- - Book, Joseph Fels and the Single Tax
Duffy,
Clarence E. (Father)
...
  • 1952 - Address, "Not Without Honor" delivered at grave of Henry George, 1 November; printed in Henry George News, December
Duffy,
E.L.
California
(Los Angeles)
  • 1921 - Employed as editor, Los Angeles Examiner; member of the Single Tax League, reaching out to retail merchants
Duffy,
James
Michigan
(Saginaw)
  • 1890 - Serving as Secretary, Saginaw Single Tax Club
Dunaway,
Samuel W.
California
(San Diego)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Duncan,
George H.
New Hampshire
(East Jaffrey)
Massachusetts
(Boston)
  • 1876 - Born, Leominster, Massachusetts, 23 6December; family soon moved to New Hampshire (where his father opened a drug store)
  • 1890s - Attended Amherst College (in 1939 he was awarded an honorary degree)
  • 1904 - Elected Selectman of Jaffrey, NH; duties included property assessment. He began a study of economics on his own, during which he read Henry George's books
  • 1912 - Led the effort to pass initative and referendum, which failed
  • 1925 - Began lecturing in U.S. and Canada for the Henry George Lecture Association, thru 1930
  • 1926 - Candidate for Democratic nomination for Congress and state legislature at the same tiime; re-elected to the New Hampshire legislature
  • 1926 - Elected to the National Advisory Committee of the Henry George Foundation of America
  • 1927 - Address, before the State Normal School of New Jersey, 4 December (650 students attending)
  • 1927 - Address, "Practical Progress in Rational Taxation," at the Henry George Congress, New York, September
  • 1927 - Began speaking tour in November (New Orleans, Los Angeles, British Columbia, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, etc.)
  • 1929 - Address, on progress toward adoption of the Single Tax, at Chicago Single Tax Club, January
  • 1930 - Participated in the fifth N.E. conference, Boston, 21-23 November
  • 1931 - Referred to in news article, Time magazine; 9 February, as supporting "the old tax-revision program"
  • 19-- - Serving as Secretary, New Hampshire Single Tax League
  • 1935 - Contributed to the founding of the Henry George School, Boston
  • 1936 - Working with Resettlement Administration
  • 1936 - Donated bound volumes of The Public from June 1909 to the final issue in 1919, to the Henry George School, NY
  • 1937 - Taught Henry George class in Peterboro
  • 1937 - Photograph
  • 1938 - Re-elected to the New Hampshire legislature
  • 1949 - Participating in the Henry George Foundation of America Congress, Philadelphia, PA, September
  • 1954 - Book, People, Land and Taxes
  • 1958 - died, September 21
Duncan,
Ina W.
California
(San Diego)
  • 1958 - Attended Henry George Schools conference, San Diego, CA
Duncan,
Kenneth
...
  • 1917 - Book, Essentials of Economics, Ch. XIV, "The Single Tax" (published in Shainhai, China). Quote: "We may accept as generally true that the effect of an increasing populationis to increase rent, but its effect also is to increase wages and interest and usually in a much greater proportion. However, the effect of social progress has also been to decrease rents on older lands. ...Since the princples upon which the single tax is based are so wrong and unfair, we cna hardly expect that it would be practicable." (pp. 439-440). Excerpted from Readings in Economics, C.F. Remer, editor
Duncan,
Raymond
...
  • 1950 - Article, "On Turning to the Right," Henry George News, January
Dunham,
Howard C.
California
(San Diego)
  • 1917 - Serving as President, San Diego Single Tax Society
Dunham,
Lawrence
Connecticut
  • 1890 - Attended National Conference of Single Tax Clubs, Cooper Union, New York City, September
Dunne,
Edward T.
Illinois
(Chicago)
  • 19-- - Served as Governor of Illinois
  • 19-- - Served as President, Chicago Single Tax Club (friend of Louis F. Post)
  • 1937 - Died, May (age 83)
Dunne,
E.T.
New York
(Binghampton)
  • 19-- - Serving as Secretary, Broome County Single Tax Club
Dunsing,
William J.
New York
(New York)
  • 1954 - Letters, Henry George News, April and July; regarding credit system and money debate
  • 1957 - Member faculty, Henry George School
Dunwiddy,
Priscilla
New York
(New York)
  • 1952 - Began writing column, "The Spirit of Henry George," Henry George News
  • 1953 - Letter, Henry George News, March
duPont,
Antoine B.
OHIO
(Cleveland)
  • 1865 - Born, Louisville (great-grandson of Elenthere Irenee duPont de Nemours
  • 18-- - Attended school in Boston
  • 1883 - Under the influence of Tom L. Johnson began to advocate the Single Tax; met Henry George
  • 1885 - Graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York with a degree in civil and electrical engineering
  • 1911 - Attended Single Tax conference, Chicago, Illinois, November
  • 1911 - Became treasurer of the Joseph Fels Fund
  • 1919 - Died, 11 April (after contracting the flu)
duPont,
Biederman
...
  • 1917 - Participated in The Great Adventure conference, Atlantic City, NJ, 13-15 April
duPont,
Francis I.
Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia)
  • 1931 - Attended Single Tax dinner, where Percy Williams was the main speaker
duPont,
Francis I.
New York
(New York)
  • 1936 - Exchanged letters with Spencer Heath, 29 June
Dupont,
Zarah
Massachusetts
(Cambridge)
  • 1935 - Attended Henry George Congress, New York, NY; September
Durand,
E. Dana
...
  • 1871 - Born, Michigan (Romeo)
  • 1881 - Family moved to Dakota territory
  • 1889 - Entered Oberlin College
  • 1893 - Enrolled in Cornell University to study political economy
  • 1896 - Earned his Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University
  • 1897 - Completed his dissertation on Finances of New York City; then went to Europe to study in Germany
  • 1897 - Joined the faculty at Stanford University
  • 1900 - Paper, "Taxation as a Partial Substitute for Borrowing," delivered at the 12th annuyal meeting of the American Economics Association, 27-29 December, Ithaca, New York
  • 1992 - Quote from Clarence E. Wunderlin, Industrial Order, Social Science and Labor Theory in America's Progressive Era, 1992. "He argued that monopoly derived from special privilege that were most frequently conferred or protected by law; thus the evolution of monopoly and the development of an industrial relations system occurred within and was conditioned by a structure of public discourse, law, and policy."
Duris,
Alex J.
South Carolina
(Greensboro)
North Carolina
(Hendersonville)
  • 1930s - Attended Henry George School conference, New York, NY
  • 1942 - Letter, regarding how to promote Henry George course, The Freeman, October
  • 1945 - Letter, regarding land speculation at the end of war and impact on returning soldiers, Henry George News, May
  • 1956 - Letter, Henry George News, March
  • 1957 - Requested Land and Liberty be sent to local tax collectors and politicians
  • 1987 - Died
Durham,
Lucy
California
  • 1928 - Participated in a State Conference for Economic Research, Pasadena, California, 8 July
Durning,
Alan Thein
(with Yoram Bauman)
...
  • 1998 - Book, Tax Shift, published, Northwest Environment Watch, Seattle
Dutton,
Glen
...
  • 1955 - Article, "The Parent Discipline," Henry George News, May
Duxbury,
Minnie Mackay
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1917 - Letter, in support of The Great Adventure campaign, Everyman, October
Duxbury,
Norman
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1917 - Letter, Everyman, October, in which he wrote: "The Great Adventure bill is not too drastic, but too mild. I want the full rental value demanded. I have no sympathy with the Equity reformers. They only retard."
Dybergh,
Richard
California
(San Francisco)
  • 1918 - Letter, Everyman, March, in which he wrote: "The patriotic argument for the enactment of single tax is timely, true, and will surely win."
Dyer,
George F.
California
(Los Angeles)
  • Profession: Editor, The Conserver (San Diego); advocated Georgist principles
  • 1936 - Died, 2 January (age 77)
Dykstra,
Clarence A.
...
  • 1883 - Born, Cleveland, Ohio
  • 1903 - Graduated, State University of Iowa
  • 1907 - Began teaching U.S. history, then political science
  • 1918 - Began working with municipal reform groups in Cleveland, Chicago, then Los Angeles
  • 1923 - Prof. of municipal administration, University of California
  • 1930 - Appointed city manager, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 1937 - Appointed President, University of Wisconsin
  • 1944 - Resigned from the University of Wisconsin
  • 1942 - Met with Margaret Bateman of the Henry George School to discuss conducting Henry George classes over the university's College of the Air
  • 1950 - Died, 7 May
Dyson,
Bert
Minnesota
(St. Paul)
  • 1989 - Attended Joint Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Dyson,
Elizabeth
Minnesota
(St. Paul)
  • 1989 - Attended Joing Georgist Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Dyson,
R.F.
...
  • 19-- - Article, Land Rnet, Chapter VI from a book not yet identified
Dyson,
Sam
...
  • 1955 - Serving as President, Fairhope Single Tax Corp.