Alice Moore McComas, born June 18, 1850, was an American author, editor, lecturer and reformer. She was a pioneer suffragist in California and served as president of the Los Angeles Equal Suffrage Association. She finished her education at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College.
During the various suffrage campaigns, McComas contributed articles to over seventy newspapers and magazines, and she was well known throughout the West as an educator and lecturer.
She was credited with being the first woman to establish a women’s department in a daily paper in California and the first woman to address a state Republican ratification meeting. She was one of the earliest organizers of the Free Kindergarten Association and of clubs for working women and was prominent in many movements for civic welfare.
She was associate editor of The Household Journal of California and author of several books, among them The Women of the Canal Zone and Under the Peppers. McComas contributed travel sketches to many magazines. She died in December of 1919.