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About Alexander McKelway
Alexander Jeffrey McKelway was an American Presbyterian minister, and journalist. A supporter of the Presidency of Woodrow Wilson he is best known as a Progressive Era reformer, especially as an activist for child labor restrictions at the state and national level. He served as editor of the Presbyterian Standard magazine and as southern secretary of the National Child Labor Committee, he influenced the Democratic platform of 1916 and the Child Labor Bill of 1916. In 1916 he campaigned for Woodrow Wilson, serving as the director of the Bureau of Education and Social Service of the Democratic National Committee. He wrote two influential pamphlets promoting Wilson as a Progressive Era reformer: "The Schoolmaster in the White House" and "Woodrow Wilson and Social Justice."
Everything about Alexander McKelway →- Occupation
- journalist, trade unionist, Christian minister
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 6, 1866
- Died
- April 16, 1918