It was located in a home built of cedar logs, rather than sod, occupied by the first Postmaster, Samuel N. Dunning.

The Post Office and town were later named for Postmaster Dunning ’ s daughter, Merna.

He held quite a few ministerial positions including Postmaster General, Minister of National Revenue, Minister without Portfolio, and Minister of Communications ( Acting ).

In 1858, Connell was appointed Postmaster General of the colony, at a time when increasing trade with the United States was forcing the British colonies to reconsider their currencies and institute a decimal system that would be more familiar to their American neighbors.

** United Kingdom Postmaster General

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* Postmaster General of the United Kingdom

* United States Postmaster General

* 1789 – The office of United States Postmaster General is established.

In Myers v. United States,, the Supreme Court held that Congress could not limit the President's power to remove an executive officer ( the Postmaster General ), but in Humphrey's Executor v. United States, it upheld Congress's authority to restrict the President's power to remove officers of the Federal Trade Commission, an " administrative body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or eye of the executive.

* March 1 – William L. Wilson is appointed United States Postmaster General.

* July 26 – The Second Continental Congress appoints Benjamin Franklin to be the first Postmaster General of what later becomes the United States Post Office Department.

The United States Postmaster General is the chief executive officer of the United States Postal Service.

The Postmaster General is second-highest paid U. S. government official, based on publicly available salary information, after the President of the United States.

In 1926, a similar law ( though not dealing with Cabinet secretaries ) was ruled unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Myers v. United States, which affirmed the ability of the President to remove a Postmaster without Congressional approval.

He built many buildings in Roseland, Virginia by hand including the United States Post Office where his wife Marion Belle-Bowles-Harvey was the Postmaster.

After being a Congressman from Illinois, he was appointed Assistant Postmaster General of the United States during Grover Cleveland's first administration ( 1885 – 1889 ), when he fired many Republican postal workers and replaced them with Southern Democrats.

The name comes from William Taylor Barry, United States Postmaster General under President Andrew Jackson, making it one of Michigan's " cabinet counties ".

* Joseph Holt, Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, Attorney General, Secretary of War, Commissioner of Patents, and Postmaster General.

The then-unincorporated community of Paramount was created in 1948 when the United States Postmaster General ordered the merger of the post offices of Hynes and Clearwater ( Pitt 1997: 381 ).

* John A. J. Creswell ( born 1828 in Port Deposit ) was a United States Senator ( 1865 – 1867 ) and United States Postmaster General ( 1869 and 1874 ).

* Amos Kendall ( 1789 – 1869 ), United States Postmaster General during the administration of Andrew Jackson

According to local legend, the United States Postmaster General submitted his name.

Creswell was incorporated in 1874, and named for John Angel James Creswell, the United States Postmaster General at that time.

During the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America Post-office Department provided mail service for the Confederate States, headed by a Postmaster General, John Henninger Reagan.

* Winton M. Blount-United States Postmaster General ( 1969 – 1972 )

There is no native population on the islands ; the present inhabitants are the British Government Officer, Deputy Postmaster, scientists, and support staff from the British Antarctic Survey who maintain scientific bases at Bird Island and at the capital, King Edward Point, as well as museum staff at nearby Grytviken.

In the Labour Government of 1964 – 1970 he served first as Postmaster General, where he oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, and later as a notably " technocratic " Minister of Technology.

In the 1964 Government of Harold Wilson, Benn was Postmaster General, where he oversaw the opening of the Post Office Tower, then the UK's tallest building, and the creations of the Post Bus service and Girobank.

The Postmaster General of the United Kingdom is a defunct Cabinet-level ministerial position in HM Government.

Ernest Marples, previously the Postmaster General, was made Transport Minister two weeks later in a cabinet reshuffle of the Conservative Government 1957 – 1964 ; Marples was described by some as ' cocky ', ' flash ', ' slick ' and as a ' construction tycoon ', and Macmillan noted that the Northern working-class boy who had won a scholarship to a grammar school was one of only two " self-made men " in his cabinet.

He was appointed to the Cabinet in 1909 by Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith, first as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, and then later as Postmaster General, President of the Local Government Board, and eventually Home Secretary.

In 1925, the Congress passed HR 7064 entitled " An Act to encourage commercial aviation and to authorize the Postmaster General to contract for Air Mail Service " ( aka " The Kelly Act ") which directed the U. S. Post Office Department to contract with private airlines to carry the mail over designated routes many of which connected with the Government operated Transcontinental Air Mail route between New York and San Francisco.

As a Government Department, the New Zealand Post Office or N. Z. P. O., previously the Post and Telegraph Department or P & T, had as the political head the Postmaster General who was a member of Cabinet, and, when it was a separate department the Minister of Telegraphs.

Kellaway served as Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions 1916-1920 ; Secretary for Overseas Trade 1920-1921 ; and Postmaster General 1921-1922 in the Coalition Government 1916-1922.

The Postmaster General recently reported that mail order frauds -- among which fake therapeutic devices figure prominently -- are at the highest level in history.

Postmaster General J. Edward Day, who must deal with matters of postal censorship, is himself author of a novel, Bartholf Street, albeit one he was obliged to publish at his own expense.

Cleveland friend and former Postmaster General Donald M. Dickinson wrote to the President in June 1896 hoping that the delegates would recognize " common sense " and be frightened at the thought of nominating a radical.

The post office for the neighborhood had previously been at Cofachique, and Aaron Case was Postmaster, but in October 1859, the office was removed to Iola, Case still being Postmaster, though James Faulkner attended to it, as his deputy, until he was appointed to the office a short time after.

On December 8, 1884 a post office was established at Bedford Center and was named Temperance with Lewis Ansted as the first Postmaster.

In 1854 Charles Canning, the Postmaster General, set up a committee at the Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand to investigate how London could best be divided for the purposes of directing mail.

The Postmaster General at the time was Horatio King, ( although the local history refers to Rufus King )

In 1972, Gerald F. Merna, the Executive Assistant to the Postmaster General at the U. S. Postal Service Headquarters in Washington, DC, learned there was a Third Class Post Office named Merna, in Custer County, Nebraska.

He was Postmaster General and in this capacity, he conducted temporary postal processing functions on each of his stays at Sabbath Day Point.

Then on November 19 he was officially appointed Postmaster at Muddy, in the County of Emery in the Utah Territory.

Postal service had been discontinued, so when the Pickrells opened a new store, they housed the postal operation at Indianola Beach with Cyrus as Postmaster.

The ITA was pressured, by a consortium of Welsh-speaking businessmen, into setting up a new North and West Wales region ; the ITA asked the Postmaster General to allow this, which he did, with strict provisos: the new service must not offer viewers in Wales a choice other viewers did not have, and at the last minute, the Postmaster General insisted that the new station should, on its own, produce ten-hours-a-week of programmes in Welsh, without relying on Welsh language programmes produced by Granada and TWW.

Cranleigh railway station was opened in 1865 as " Cranley " as part of the Cranleigh Line, its name was changed in 1867 to " Cranleigh " at the request of the Postmaster General as badly addressed letters to " Cranley " were often mistaken for " Crawley " and vice versa.

Postmaster General Jack Potter announced the stamp series at the Associated Press managing editors meeting in Washington, D. C.

During his tenure at Postmaster General he shifted the postal service from a collect on delivery postage delivery system to a prepaid postal delivery system by introducing the postage stamp in 1847.

He was notable not only as an avid collector in his own right ( with a collection estimated at around 1 million stamps ), but also for taking an interest in the stamp issues of the Department, working closely with Postmaster James Farley, the former Democratic Party Committee Chairman.

At the launch in 1998, the Postmaster General at that time, Marvin T. Runyon, described his vision of postage being " available, on call, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.