Seal of the United States Department of the Post Office
The United States Postmaster General heads the American Federal Post Office .
From 1792 this office had ministerial rank; so the Postmaster General was a member of the federal government. With the Postal Reorganization Act 1971, its federal agency, the United States Post Office Department , was abolished and transferred to the independent federal agency United States Postal Service .
Postal Minister under the Continental Congress
List of Postal Ministers, 1789–1971
Surname
Term of office
Served under President (s)
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
Postmaster General, 1971 – present
Louis DeJoy, the 75th and current
United States Postmaster General
Web links Individual evidence
↑ Josh Dawsey, Lisa Rein and Jacob Bogage: Top Republican fundraiser and Trump ally named postmaster general, giving new president influence over Postal Service. The Washington Post , May 7, 2020, accessed July 15, 2020 .
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