Alice Cary McKinney (née Sadler; 1865–1928) was an American temperance and social reformer.

[1] She left college during her junior year (1884) to teach school in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, where she remained until 1886.

[1] Early in life, McKinney had become interested in the temperance movement, and after becoming affiliated with the WCTU, served in almost every capacity in the local county and State bodies, including the editorship of the State WCTU organ, White Ribbon,[4] and the preparation of temperance columns for other publications.

[3] The young couple lived near Anguilla, Mississippi for a number of years following their marriage, later moving to Louisiana.

[2] She died in a local sanitarium in Shreveport, Louisiana, October 8, 1928, where she had been for ten days undergoing her second blood transfusion in little more than a month.