PAST POSTMASTERS Took Office Benjamin Franklin July 26,1775 Richard Bache November 7, 1776 EbenezerHazard January28, 1782 Samuel Osgood September26, 1789 Timothy Pickering...... August 12, 1791 Joseph Habersharn ebruary 25, 1795 Gideon Granger. . - ovember 28, 1801 Return J. Meigs, Jr March 17,1814 JohnMcLean June26, 1823 William T. Barry March 9,1829 Amos Kendall May 1, 1835 John M. Niles May 19, 1840 FrancisGranger March6, 1841 Charles A. Wickliffe eptember 13, 1841 Cave Johnson March 6, 1845 Jacob Collamer March 8,1849 Nathan K. Hall July 23,1850 Samuel D. Hubbard August 31,1852 James Campbell March 7, 1853 Aaron V. Brown March 6, 1857 Joseph Holt March 14; 1859 Horatio King Fcbruary 12, 1861 Montgomery Blair March 5, 1861 William Dennison September24, 1864 Alexander W. Randall July 25, 1866 John A,J. Creswell March 51 1869 James W. Marshall July 3, 1874 Marshall Jewell August 24, 1874 James N. Tyner July 12,1876 David McK. Key March 12, 1877 Horace Maynard June 2, 1880 Thomas L. James March 5, 1881 Unmothy 0. Howe December 20, 1881 WaltcrQ. Gresham April 3, 1883 Frank Hatton Octobcr 14, 1884 Williarn F. Vilas . March 6, 1885 Don M. Dickinson. 1888 John Wanamaker, 1889 WiJson S. Bissell. 1893 William L. Wilson. 1895 James A. Gary. 1897 Charles Emory Smith. 1898 Henry C. Payne 1902 Robertj. Wynne 1904 George B. Cortelyou 1905 George von L. Meyer January IS, Frank H. Hitchcock March 5,1909 Alben S. Burleson March 5,1913 Will H. Hays March 5,1921 Hubert Work March 4,1922 Harry S. New February 27 1923 Walter F. Brown March 5,1929 James A. Farley 1933 Frank C. Walker 1940 Robert E.Hannegan... 1945 Jesse M. Donaldson. 1947 Arthur H. Summerfield. 1953 J. Edward Day 1961 John A. Gronouski 1963 Lawrence F. O'Brien. - 1965 W. Marvin Watson 1968 Winton M. Blount. 1969 The U.S. Postal Service Winton M. Blount July 1,1971 ET. Klassen January 1 1972 Benjamin F. Bailar February 16,1975 William F. Bolger March 15,1978 Paul N. Carlin January 1,1985 Marvin Runyon William Henderson