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The Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service . From 1872 to 1971 , the postmaster general was 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 . The Cabinet office of Postmaster General was often given to a new President's campaign manager or other key political supporter, and was considered something of a sinecure . In 1971 , the Post Office Department was re-organized into the United States Postal Service, a government-owned corporation. Thus, the Postmaster General is no longer a member of the Cabinet.
Civil War , postal services in the Confederacy were provided by the Confederate Post-office Department , headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan .
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Postmasters-General under the Continental Congress
Cabinet-level Postmasters-General, 1789-1971 Name Date appointed President(s) served under 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, Jr. 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 Horace Maynard ???, 1880 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 M. Blount January 22 , 1969 Nixon
Postmasters-General, 1971[1] -present Name Date appointed Winton M. Blount July 1 , 1971 E. T. Klassen January 1 , 1972 Benjamin F. Bailar February 16 , 1975 William F. Bolger March 15 , 1978 Paul N. Carlin January 1 , 1985 Albert V. Casey January 7 , 1986 Preston R. Tisch August 16 , 1986 Anthony M. Frank March 1 , 1988 Marvin T. Runyon July 6 , 1992 William J. Henderson May 16 , 1998 John E. Potter June 1 , 2001
July 1 , 1971 , the Postmaster General has been appointed by and serves under the Governors of the United States Postal Service .
External link Official site (http://www.usps.com/communications/organization/pmg.htm )
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