Der
United States Postmaster General
steht der
amerikanischen Bundespost
vor.
Ab 1792 hatte dieses Amt Ministerrang; der
Postmaster General
war Mitglied der Bundesregierung. Mit dem Postal Reorganization Act 1971 wurde seine Bundesbehorde, das
United States Post Office Department
, abgeschafft und in die
unabhangige Bundesbehorde
United States Postal Service
uberfuhrt.
Name
|
Amtszeit
|
Diente unter Prasident(en)
|
Samuel Osgood
|
1789?1791
|
George Washington
|
Timothy Pickering
|
1791?1795
|
George Washington
|
Joseph Habersham
|
1795?1801
|
George Washington,
John Adams
,
Thomas Jefferson
|
Gideon Granger
|
1801?1814
|
Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison
|
Return Jonathan Meigs, Jr.
|
1814?1823
|
James Madison,
James Monroe
|
John McLean
|
1823?1829
|
James Monroe,
John Quincy Adams
|
William Taylor Barry
|
1829?1835
|
Andrew Jackson
|
Amos Kendall
|
1835?1840
|
Andrew Jackson,
Martin Van Buren
|
John Milton Niles
|
1840?1841
|
Martin van Buren
|
Francis Granger
|
1841
|
William Henry Harrison
,
John Tyler
|
Charles Anderson Wickliffe
|
1841?1845
|
John Tyler
|
Cave Johnson
|
1845?1849
|
James K. Polk
|
Jacob Collamer
|
1849?1850
|
Zachary Taylor
|
Nathan Kelsey Hall
|
1850?1852
|
Millard Fillmore
|
Samuel Dickinson Hubbard
|
1852?1853
|
Millard Fillmore
|
James Campbell
|
1853?1857
|
Franklin Pierce
|
Aaron Venable Brown
|
1857?1859
|
James Buchanan
|
Joseph Holt
|
1859?1861
|
James Buchanan
|
Horatio King
|
1861
|
James Buchanan,
Abraham Lincoln
|
Montgomery Blair
|
1861?1864
|
Abraham Lincoln
|
William Dennison Jr.
|
1864?1866
|
Abraham Lincoln,
Andrew Johnson
|
Alexander Williams Randall
|
1866?1869
|
Andrew Johnson
|
John Angel James Creswell
|
1869?1874
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
James William Marshall
|
1874
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
Marshall Jewell
|
1874?1876
|
Ulysses S. Grant
|
James Noble Tyner
|
1876?1877
|
Ulysses Grant
|
David McKendree Key
|
1877?1880
|
Rutherford B. Hayes
|
Horace Maynard
|
1880?1881
|
Rutherford B. Hayes
|
Thomas Lemuel James
|
1881
|
James A. Garfield
,
Chester A. Arthur
|
Timothy Otis Howe
|
1881?1883
|
Chester A. Arthur
|
Walter Quintin Gresham
|
1883?1884
|
Chester A. Arthur
|
Frank Hatton
|
1884?1885
|
Chester A. Arthur
|
William Freeman Vilas
|
1885?1888
|
Grover Cleveland
|
Donald McDonald Dickinson
|
1888?1889
|
Grover Cleveland
|
John Wanamaker
|
1889?1893
|
Benjamin Harrison
|
Wilson Shannon Bissell
|
1893?1895
|
Grover Cleveland
|
William Lyne Wilson
|
1895?1897
|
Grover Cleveland
|
James Albert Gary
|
1897?1898
|
William McKinley
|
Charles Emory Smith
|
1898?1902
|
William McKinley,
Theodore Roosevelt
|
Henry Clay Payne
|
1902?1904
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
Robert John Wynne
|
1904?1905
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
George Bruce Cortelyou
|
1905?1907
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
George von Lengerke Meyer
|
1907?1909
|
Theodore Roosevelt
|
Frank Harris Hitchcock
|
1909?1913
|
William Howard Taft
|
Albert Sidney Burleson
|
1913?1921
|
Woodrow Wilson
|
William Harrison Hays
|
1921?1922
|
Warren G. Harding
|
Hubert Work
|
1922?1923
|
Warren G. Harding
|
Harry Stewart New
|
1923?1929
|
Warren G. Harding,
Calvin Coolidge
|
Walter Folger Brown
|
1929?1933
|
Herbert Hoover
|
James Aloysius Farley
|
1933?1940
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt
|
Frank Comerford Walker
|
1940?1945
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt,
Harry S. Truman
|
Robert Emmet Hannegan
|
1945?1947
|
Harry S. Truman
|
Jesse Monroe Donaldson
|
1947?1953
|
Harry S. Truman
|
Arthur Ellsworth Summerfield
|
1953?1961
|
Dwight D. Eisenhower
|
James Edward Day
|
1961?1963
|
John F. Kennedy
|
John Austin Gronouski
|
1963?1965
|
John F. Kennedy,
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
Lawrence Francis O’Brien
|
1965?1968
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
William Marvin Watson
|
1968?1969
|
Lyndon B. Johnson
|
Winton Malcolm Blount
|
1969?1971
|
Richard Nixon
|
- ↑
Josh Dawsey, Lisa Rein und Jacob Bogage:
Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving president new influence over Postal Service.
The Washington Post
, 7. Mai 2020,
abgerufen am 15. Juli 2020
(englisch).