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Encyclopedia > Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield

Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield (17 March 1899, Pinconning, Michigan – 26 April 1972, West Palm Beach, Florida) was a U.S. political figure. He ran (unsuccessfully) for the governorship of his home state of Michigan in 1946 and served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee between 1952 and 1953. He also served as the federal Postmaster General between 1953 and 1961.


As postmaster general, he oversaw the United States Postal Service's brief experiment with rocket-delivered mail, a flirtation that crystalized into reality for the first and only time as "missile mail" with the 8 June 1959 launch of a letter_stuffed Regulus cruise missile from the USS Barbero, a submarine of the United States Navy.

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Before man reaches the moon your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, to England, to India or to Australia by guided missiles.... We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.

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Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield was postmaster general under President Eisenhower from January 21, 1953, to January 20, 1961.
Summerfield's first foray into politics was as an organizer for Wendell Wilkie in the latter's unsuccessful 1940 presidential challenge.
Summerfield was named chairman of the RNC the day after Eisenhower's nomination as the Republican presidential candidate in 1952 and supervised the election campaign.
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