Postmaster General Burleson set about to protect the American people against radical propaganda that might be spread through the mails.

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

** Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel, Postmaster General ; was falsely implicated.

In 1889 George Gillmore, formerly an electrician for the GPO's Manx telegraph operations, was granted a licence by the Postmaster General to operate the Isle of Man's first telephone service.

The cable was completed on 6 June 1929 and the first call between the Isle of Man and the outside world was made on 28 June 1929 by Lieutenant Governor Sir Claude Hill in Douglas to the Postmaster General in Liverpool.

John Reagan of Texas became Postmaster General, and Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana became Attorney General.

Mallory continued as Secretary of the Navy and Reagan as Postmaster General ; both men kept their positions throughout the war.

It was not until 3 August 1965 that the new station and office were opened by the Postmaster General, Anthony Wedgwood-Benn.

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In 1856, under the direction of Postmaster General James Campbell, Toppan and Carpenter, ( commissioned by the U. S. government to print U. S. postage stamps through the 1850s ) purchased a rotary machine designed to separate stamps, patented in England in 1854 by William and Henry Bemrose, who were printers in Derby, England.

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

The agreement to make the connection was announced by the Postmaster General on December 1, 1953.

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.

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.

Both Chase and Attorney General Edward Bates were strongly influenced by the various messages from Europe, and Postmaster Montgomery Blair had been in favor of releasing the captives even before the meeting.

He was Postmaster at Charlottetown until 1 August 1884 as well as Post Office Inspector for the Province from 1880 until that date when he was appointed as the seventeenth Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island since the creation of the Colony in 1763.

Upon his death in 1850, he was succeeded as 2nd Baron Stanley of Alderley and 8th Baronet of Alderley Hall by his son Edward, who was a prominent Liberal politician and notably served as President of the Board of Trade, Postmaster General and had in 1848 been created Baron Eddisbury, of Winnington in the County Palatine of Chester, in his own right.

He was born in Charlottetown to Thomas Owen, who was Postmaster General for Prince Edward Island for eighteen years, serving until his death in 1860.

Edward Smith, of the Post Office Inland Letter Section, was appointed as the Army Postmaster, and left London in June 1854 with an Assistant Army Postmaster, Thomas Angell.

Harrison lost his postal employment through what he said were efforts of Washington ’ s powerful “ Tuskegee Machine ”, in events that involved the prominent Black Republican Charles W. Anderson, Washington ’ s assistant Emmett Scott, and New York Postmaster Edward M. Morgan.

J. Edward Day ( October 11, 1914 – October 29, 1996 ) was an American lawyer and business executive, most widely known as the United States Postmaster General under whose leadership the ZIP code was introduced.

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

Garfield's appointment of Thomas Lemuel James to U. S. Postmaster infuriated Garfield's party rival, Stalwart Roscoe Conkling, who demanded a commensurate appointment for his faction and his state, such as the position of Secretary of Treasury.

For example, James Farley used his position as Postmaster General during Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal administration to reward party loyalists within Congress who supported Roosevelt's initial " 100 days " legislation with federal patronage for their states.

Even the Postmaster General, David Key, who was the second Confederate veteran to serve in a Federal Cabinet since the American Civil War was more notable.

In October 1869, the post office was renamed in honor of General Frank Wheaton by the area's first Postmaster George F. Plyer who served as a Private under Gen. Wheaton in 1861 during the American Civil War.

It is named for Joseph Holt of Kentucky, who was Postmaster General and Secretary of War under President James Buchanan.

* Choat-Located on County Road 702 southwest of Grassy, it was named after Postmaster Albert Choat who also owned a store here.

The city is also home to the Estudillo Mansion, which was home to Francisco Estudillo who was the city's first Postmaster and was elected as the city's second mayor.

Georgia's 43rd county was named for Major Joseph Habersham, who fought in the Revolutionary War, was Mayor of Savannah, served in Congress and was President George Washington's Postmaster General.

* W. Marvin Watson, who served as U. S. Postmaster General, White House Appointments Secretary and then as White House Chief of Staff under President Lyndon B. Johnson, was born in Oakhurst in 1924.

His father, Ernest Walter Jones, was a domiciled European who worked in the Telegraph Department in India ; his mother, Merlyn Edith Jones ( née Jones ), was an Anglo-Indian woman, daughter of a Postmaster of Madras.

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.

The school was named after Montgomery Blair, a lawyer who represented Dred Scott in his United States Supreme Court case and who served as Postmaster General under President Abraham Lincoln.

The camp was named after then Governor Alexander Randall, who later became Postmaster General of the United States.

The nine presidentially appointed Governors choose the Postmaster General, who also serves as a member of the Board.

These 10, in turn, choose a Deputy Postmaster General, who becomes the 11th member of the Board.

Mr. G. Sudhakar Rao, a scientist, who went to Antarctica as a member of the Seventh Indian Expedition to Antarctica was appointed as the first Honorary Postmaster.

In the UK the Postmaster General ( who was responsible for radio licensing ), laid down a set of stringent rules concerning radio interference.

He had previously represented Newington West in the House of Commons and served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1905 to 1910 and as Assistant Postmaster General between 1910 and 1916. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1990.

Among those who were on hand for the departure of the first flight from Washington, D. C., were President Woodrow Wilson, U. S. Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.