# Alice Riggs Hunt
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{{short description|American suffragist, writer, journalist}}
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| name = Alice Riggs Hunt
| image = Alice Riggs Hunt 1915.jpg
| alt = A photograph of Alice sitting on a chair wearing a sash that says Votes For Women, holding books
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| birth_date = June 14, 1884
| birth_place = New York City
| death_date = August 21, 1974, 90 years
| death_place = Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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| occupation = Journalist, activist, writer
| education = {{ublist|[Columbia University](/source/Columbia_University)|[Drake University](/source/Drake_University)}}
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'''Alice Riggs Hunt''' (June 14, 1884 – August 21, 1974) was an American women's rights activist, journalist, writer, and speaker. In the [United States](/source/United_States), she was active as an organizer of [women suffrage](/source/women_suffrage) movements both [New York](/source/New_York_(state)) and [West Virginia](/source/West_Virginia) though her activism extended internationally as she often attended conferences in Europe concerning women's suffrage and international peace.
==Early life and education==
Riggs Hunt, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunt, was born into an affluent family.[{{cite book |title=The Elite of New York, society list and club register: Thirty-first year 1885-1915 |publisher=Elite of New York Co. |url=https://archive.org/details/ldpd_5767518_000/page/n213?q=%22alice+riggs+hunt%22 |accessdate=17 October 2018}}] Born on July 14, 1884, she was raised in New York City where her childhood consisted of private school study.[{{cite news |last1=Reid |first1=Eva |title=Eavesdrop with Eva Reid |work=The Albertan |date=10 September 1973 |location=Alberta, Canada |page=14 |type=Clipping}}][{{cite news |title=Alice Riggs Hunt: Correspondent, Suffragette |work=Globe and Mail |date=August 23, 1974 |page=11 |type=Microfilm}}]
As a journalist, she contributed to the [New York Evening Post](/source/New_York_Evening_Post), [New York Tribune](/source/New_York_Tribune), [New York Evening Mail](/source/New_York_Evening_Mail), [New York Call](/source/New_York_Call), [London Daily Herald](/source/Daily_Herald_(UK_newspaper)), [La Vie Ouvriere](/source/La_Vie_Ouvriere) (Paris), [The Workers' Dreadnought](/source/The_Workers'_Dreadnought), London, Bulletin of the Peoples, Council of America, and Bulletin of the American Woman Suffrage Association. She also worked as an international correspondent during the [First World War](/source/Great_War), during which time Riggs Hunt covered the [Versailles Treaty](/source/Versailles_Treaty) and the organization of the [League of Nations](/source/League_of_Nations).[{{cite web |title=Alice Riggs Hunt |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/library/special-collections-archives/collections/hunt-alice-riggs |website=University of Waterloo Special Collections and Archives |publisher=University of Waterloo |accessdate=15 October 2018|date=2014-04-15 }}][{{cite book |title=Report of the Third International Congress of Women, Vienna, July 10-17, 1921 |date=1921 |publisher=Women's International League for Peace and Freedom |location=Geneva |url=https://archive.org/details/reportofthirdint00womerich/page/24 |accessdate=17 October 2018}}] Between October 1931 and October 1932, Riggs Hunt also published and edited the quarterly magazine ''Peniel''. Focused on underscoring the value of face-to-face interaction as a form of societal betterment, the magazine's scope was dismissed by an anonymous author with the Fortnightly review as "hodge-podge of the new psychology and pantheism, designed for consumption by women's literary clubs."[{{cite journal |title=Peniel |journal=Fortnightly Review |date=December 1931 |pages=281–282 |url=https://archive.org/details/fortnightlyrevie3839unse/page/n283?q=%22alice+riggs+hunt%22 |publisher=St. Louis : A. Preuss, [etc.]}}]
Riggs Hunt was a speaker at many women's suffrage events, and participated in lecture tours concerning women's suffrage during her time with the Woman Suffrage Association of New York State.[{{cite book |last1=Harper |first1=Eda Husted |title=The History of Woman Suffrage |date=1922 |publisher=National American Woman Suffrage Association |pages=[https://archive.org/details/ost-history-history_of_woman_suffrage_1900_1920/page/n709 691]–692 |url=https://archive.org/details/ost-history-history_of_woman_suffrage_1900_1920 |accessdate=17 October 2018 |language=English}}] Riggs Hunt was also member of various organizations including the [Colonial Dames of America](/source/Colonial_Dames_of_America), Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America, and the Huguenot Society of New York.