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    The United States postmaster general (PMG) is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The PMG is responsible for managing...
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  • delivered by persons authorised by the Postmaster General. In the United Kingdom, the office of Postmaster General was abolished in 1969. It was replaced...
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    removal of most postmasters was handled by the First Assistant United States Postmaster General in Washington, D.C., while postmasters who earned more...
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  • appointed governors, 1 is the postmaster general, and 1 is the deputy postmaster general. The 9 governors elect the postmaster general, the chairman of the board...
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    Louis DeJoy (category United States Postmasters General)
    businessman serving as the 75th U.S. postmaster general. He was appointed in May 2020 by the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Prior...
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    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as Attorney-General of Pennsylvania and United States Postmaster General during the presidency of Franklin Pierce. Born...
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    Benjamin Franklin (category United States Postmasters General)
    Founding Fathers of the United States; a drafter and signer of the Declaration of Independence; and the first postmaster general. Franklin became a successful...
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    The Postmaster-General's Department (PMG) was a department of the Australian federal government, established at Federation in 1901, whose responsibilities...
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    Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States. The number of...
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    John E. Potter (category United States Postmasters General)
    the former United States Postmaster General and CEO of the United States Postal Service (USPS), having become the 72nd postmaster general on June 1, 2001...
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    Washington D.C. He served until 1859 when Buchanan appointed him Postmaster General. The Buchanan administration was shaken in December 1860 and January...
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  • from 1975 to 1984. Before joining the NBA, O'Brien was the United States Postmaster General under President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1965 to 1968. A new...
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    The system for mail delivery in the United States has developed with the nation. Rates were based on the distance between sender and receiver in the nation's...
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  • Anthony M. Frank (category United States Postmasters General)
    February 2, 2022) is an American banker who served as the United States Postmaster General from 1988 to 1992. On May 21, 1931, Frank was born in Berlin...
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    Patrick R. Donahoe (category United States Postmasters General)
    Donahoe is an American politician who served as the 73rd United States Postmaster General, having been appointed to the post on October 25, 2010. A 35-year...
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    politician from Connecticut, serving in the United States Senate and as United States Postmaster General 1840 to 1841. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, Niles...
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    Arthur Summerfield (category United States Postmasters General)
    political figure who served as the 54th Postmaster General of the United States from 1953 to 1961. As Postmaster General, he was an ardent opponent of obscenity...
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    Megan Brennan (category United States Postmasters General)
    Jane Brennan (born c. 1962) served as the seventy-fourth Postmaster General of the United States. Brennan became the first woman to hold the office when...
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    William J. Henderson (category United States Postmasters General)
    William J. Henderson (born June 16, 1947) served as the United States Postmaster General from 1998 to 2001. Henderson graduated with a degree in industrial...
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  • a well-connected Republican lawyer who had previously been United States Postmaster General; and he derailed attempts to institute federal censorship over...
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    Larry O'Brien (category United States Postmasters General)
    He was one of the United States Democratic Party's leading electoral strategists for more than two decades. He was Postmaster General in the cabinet of...
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    John Wanamaker (category United States Postmasters General)
    of advertising and a "pioneer in marketing". He served as United States Postmaster General in the Benjamin Harrison administration from 1889 to 1893....
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    move, the Board of Governors of the United States Postal Service appointed Louis DeJoy, the first postmaster general in the last two decades who did not...
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    the Confederate States of America were provided by the Confederate States of America Post-office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger...
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    Will H. Hays (category United States Postmasters General)
    campaign for the Presidency of the United States in the 1920 election and was subsequently appointed Postmaster General. While serving in the Harding Administration...
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  • Marvin Travis Runyon (category United States Postmasters General)
    tenuous relationship with the Authority. Runyon was appointed United States Postmaster General in 1992, at a time when the postal service was struggling with...
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    William Marshall (August 14, 1822 – February 5, 1910) was a United States Postmaster General under President Ulysses S. Grant as well as a government administrator...
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    as counsel to Rialto Grain and Securities Company in the United States Postmaster General's investigation of Rialto for mail fraud. On Burton's first...
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  • Preston Robert Tisch (category United States Postmasters General)
    Jewish fraternity. On August 16, 1986, he was appointed Postmaster General of the United States Postal Service, serving until March 1, 1988. In 1991, Tisch...
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    Operation Postmaster was a British special operation conducted on the Spanish island of Fernando Po, now known as Bioko, off West Africa in the Gulf of...
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