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United States Postmaster General

The Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service. He was from 1872 to 1971 the head of an executive department concerned with the postal service (the Post Office Department). During that period, he was a member of the President's Cabinet.

Postmasters General

Name	Year appointed	President(s) served under
Benjamin Franklin	July 26, 1775	(Continental Congress)
Richard Bache[?]	November 7, 1776	(Continental Congress)
Ebenezer Hazard[?]	January 28, 1782	(Continental Congress)
Samuel Osgood[?]	September 26, 1789	Washington
Timothy Pickering[?]	August 12, 1791	Washington
Joseph Habersham[?]	February 25, 1795	Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Gideon Granger[?]	November 28, 1801	Jefferson, Madison
Return J. Meigs[?]	March 17, 1814	Madison, Monroe
John McLean[?]	June 26, 1823	Monroe, J. Q. Adams
William T. Barry[?]	March 9, 1829	Jackson
Amos Kendall[?]	May 1, 1835	Jackson, Van Buren
John M. Niles[?]	May 19, 1840	Van Buren
Francis Granger[?]	March 6, 1841	W. H. Harrison, Tyler
Charles A. Wickliffe[?]	September 13, 1841	Tyler
Cave Johnson[?]	March 6, 1845	Polk
Jacob Collamer[?]	March 8, 1849	Taylor
Nathan K. Hall[?]	July 23, 1850	Fillmore
Samuel D. Hubbard[?]	August 31, 1852	Fillmore
James Campbell[?]	March 7, 1853	Pierce
Aaron V. Brown[?]	March 6, 1857	Buchanan
Joseph Holt[?]	March 14, 1859	Buchanan
Horatio King[?]	February 12, 1861	Buchanan
Montgomery Blair[?]	March 5, 1861	Lincoln
William Dennison[?]	September 24, 1864	Lincoln, A. Johnson
Alexander W. Randall[?]	July 25, 1866	A. Johnson
John A. J. Creswell[?]	March 5, 1869	Grant
James W. Marshall[?]	July 3, 1874	Grant
Marshall Jewell[?]	August 24, 1874	Grant
James N. Tyner[?]	July 12, 1876	Grant
David M. Key[?]	March 12, 1877	Hayes
Thomas L. James[?]	March 5, 1881	Garfield, Arthur
Timothy O. Howe[?]	December 20, 1881	Arthur
Walter Q. Gresham[?]	April 3, 1883	Arthur
Frank Hatton[?]	October 14, 1884	Arthur
William F. Vilas[?]	March 6, 1885	Cleveland
Don M. Dickinson[?]	January 6, 1888	Cleveland
John Wanamaker	March 5, 1889	B. Harrison
Wilson S. Bissell[?]	March 6, 1893	Cleveland
William L. Wilson[?]	March 1, 1895	Cleveland
James A. Gary[?]	March 5, 1897	McKinley
Charles Emory Smith[?]	April 21, 1898	McKinley, T. Roosevelt
Henry C. Payne[?]	January 9, 1902	T. Roosevelt
Robert J. Wynne[?]	October 10, 1904	T. Roosevelt
George B. Cortelyou[?]	March 6, 1905	T. Roosevelt
George von L. Meyer[?]	January 15, 1907	T. Roosevelt
Frank H. Hitchcock[?]	March 5, 1909	Taft
Albert S. Burleson[?]	March 5, 1913	Wilson
Will H. Hays[?]	March 5, 1921	Harding
Hubert Work[?]	March 4, 1922	Harding
Harry S. New[?]	February 27, 1923	Harding, Coolidge
Walter F. Brown[?]	March 5, 1929	Hoover
James A. Farley[?]	March 4, 1933	F. Roosevelt
Frank C. Walker[?]	September 10, 1940	F. Roosevelt, Truman
Robert E. Hannegan[?]	May 8, 1945	Truman
Jesse M. Donaldson[?]	December 16, 1947	Truman
Arthur E. Summerfield[?]	January 21, 1953	Eisenhower
J. Edward Day[?]	January 21, 1961	Kennedy
John A. Gronouski[?]	September 30, 1963	Kennedy, L. Johnson
Lawrence F. O'Brien[?]	November 3, 1965	L. Johnson
W. Marvin Watson[?]	April 26, 1968	L. Johnson
Winton W. Blount[?]	January 22, 1969	Nixon^[1](July 1, 1971)
E. T. Klassen[?]	January 1, 1972	^[1]
Benjamin F. Bailar[?]	February 16, 1975	^[1]
William F. Bolger[?]	March 15, 1978	^[1]
Paul N. Carlin[?]	January 1, 1985	^[1]
Albert V. Casey[?]	January 7, 1986	^[1]
Preston R. Tisch[?]	August 16, 1986	^[1]
Anthony M. Frank[?]	March 1, 1988	^[1]
Marvin T. Runyon[?]	July 6, 1992	^[1]

[1] Since July 1, 1971, the Postmaster General has been appointed by and serves under the Governor of the United States Postal Service[?].

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