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In 1775, the Continental Congress appointed Benjamin Franklin Postmaster General (PMG). Franklin had previously served in that post under the Crown. He was followed by his son-in-law, Richard Bache, and Ebenezer Hazard. The first Postmaster General of the new United States of America was Samuel Osgood. Postmasters General continued to be appointed by the President until 1971, when the U.S ...
The Airmail Scandal and Beyond. The DC-3 was the first plane that brought airlines a higher return in passenger receipts than airmail receipts. In 1930, Postmaster General Walter Brown pushed for legislation that would have another major impact on the development of commercial aviation. Known as the Watres Act (after one of its chief sponsors ...
The day after the inauguration, Lincoln appointed Montgomery Blair to be Postmaster General of the United States. A combination of factors including Blair’s strong anti-slavery stance and political background in the key border states of Missouri and Maryland made him an ideal pick for a cabinet position. Blair would transform the Post Office ...
By the time Benjamin Franklin was named the nation’s Postmaster General (PMG) in 1775, he had already served with William Hunter as co-Postmaster General under the British (1757-1774). But Franklin’s first experience as a postal employee was in 1737 when he was appointed the postmaster of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The Postmaster General Collection (PMG) consists of two distinct collections: the philatelic collection, which contains postage stamps, die proofs, essays and other material related to the printing of stamps and postal stationary; and the art collection, which contains the original artwork that the Postal Service has commissioned for U.S ...
The Postmaster General was ecstatic over the possibilities of technology for postal use, claiming that, “This peacetime employment of a guided missile for the important and practical purpose of carrying mail is the first known official use of missiles by any Post Office Department of any nation.
In the early 1800s, women were prohibited from holding a clerkship in the general post office. In fact, any postmaster who would “be so daring as to appoint a woman as a clerk” would be “cited as a cause for his dismissal.” 5 However, women continued to unofficially assist their postmaster husbands, brothers, or sons with postal ...
More than a century before the Continental Congress named Benjamin Franklin our Postmaster General, a Boston tavern owned by Richard Fairbanks was designated the colonies’ first post office. On November 6, 1639 , the Massachusetts General Court named Fairbanks’ tavern as a post office for letters coming into or going out of the colony to ...
He also donated thousands of pieces of 1938 National Airmail Week mail and stamps and souvenirs from his time as postmaster general. The collection is now part of the holdings of the National Postal Museum , and can be explored using the following Finding Guide: James A. Farley “National Air Mail Week” May 15 – 21, 1938.
Zachary Fletcher was the first postmaster of the Nicodemus, Kansas, an African American settlement established during Reconstruction. He was appointed on September 12, 1877. His wife also served as postmaster of the Kansas Post Office from 1889 until 1894. James W. Mason. James Mason was the earliest known African American postmaster.