Biography
Caroline F. Urie was an elderly Quaker who for years refused to pay the war portion of her federal income tax. She faced IRS enforcement over her war-tax resistance.
Caroline Foulke Urie, the widow of a Navy medical officer, spent years as a Quaker relief worker in Europe and was once expelled from Italy by the Mussolini government for anti-fascist statements. A founding member of the Peacemakers tax-refusal committee in 1948, she withheld 32.3 percent of her income tax that year — the military share — telling President Truman in an open letter that “the atomic bomb has reduced to a final criminal absurdity the whole war system,” and declaring herself ready to go to jail rather than pay for war.