Ralph Easley

[1] In 1875, Easley moved to Hutchinson, Kansas, where he was a public school teacher, postmaster, and newspaper reporter.

[citation needed] In 1898, he held a first Federation conference in Saratoga, New York, on "The Future Foreign Policy of the United States.

"[1] Members of the National Civic Federation included New York City Mayor Seth Low and American Federation of Labor (AFL) President Samuel Gompers, as well as former US Senator Mark Hanna, Ambassador August Belmont, former US President Grover Cleveland, and former New York City Mayor John Purroy Mitchell.

[1] In 1936, Easley revealed that he and Gompers used funds from ten US manufacturers to employ "secret agents" to spy in 1915 on Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff, Germany's ambassador to the USA.

[citation needed] Ralph Montomergy Easley died age 83 on September 8, 1939, at his home in Rye, New York.