List of Postmasters General
Continental Congress
| Benjamin Franklin, | Pennsylvania, | July 26, 1775 | |
| Richard Bache, | Pennsylvania, | Nov. 7, 1776 | |
| Ebenezer Hazard, | New York, | Jan. 28, 1782 | |
| Presidents | Postmasters General | State | Date of Appointment |
| Washington, | Samuel Osgood, | Massachusetts, | Sept. 26, 1789 |
| ” | Timothy Pickering, | Pennsylvania, | Aug. 12, 1791 |
| ” | Joseph Habersham, | Georgia, | Feb. 25, 1795 |
| Jefferson, | Gideon Granger, | Connecticut, | Nov. 28, 1801 |
| Madison, | Return J. Meigs, Jr., | Ohio, | April 11, 1814 |
| Monroe, | John McLean, | Ohio, | July 1, 1823 |
| Jackson, | Wm. T. Barry, | Kentucky, | April 6, 1829 |
| ” | Amos Kendall, | Kentucky, | May 1, 1835 |
| Van Buren, | John M. Niles, | Connecticut, | May 26, 1840 |
| Harrison, W. H., | Francis Granger, | New York, | Mar. 8, 1841 |
| Tyler, | Chas. A. Wickliffe, | Kentucky, | Oct. 13, 1841 |
| Polk, | Cave Johnson, | Tennessee, | Mar. 6, 1845 |
| Taylor, | Jacob Collamer, | Vermont, | Mar. 8, 1849 |
| Fillmore, | Nathan K. Hall, | New York, | July 23, 1850 |
| ” | Samuel D. Hubbard, | Connecticut, | Sept. 14, 1852 |
| Pierce, | James Campbell, | Pennsylvania, | Mar. 7, 1853 |
| Buchanan, | Aaron V. Brown, | Tennessee, | Mar. 6, 1857 |
| ” | Joseph Holt, | Kentucky, | Mar. 14, 1859 |
| Lincoln, | Horatio King, | Maine, | Feb. 12, 1861 |
| ” | Montgomery Blair, | Dist. of Col. | Mar. 9, 1861 |
| Johnson, | Wm. Dennison, | Ohio, | Oct. 1, 1864 |
| ” | Alex. W. Randall, | Wisconsin, | July 25, 1866 |
| Grant, | John A. J. Creswell, | Maryland, | Mar. 5, 1869 |
| ” | Jas. W. Marshall, | New Jersey, | July 7, 1874 |
| ” | Marshall Jewell, | Connecticut, | Sept. 1, 1875 |
| ” | Jas. N. Tyner, | Indiana, | July 12, 1876 |
| Hayes, | D. M. Key, | Tennessee, | Mar. 13, 1877 |
| ” | Horace Maynard, | Tennessee, | Aug. 25, 1880 |
| Garfield and Arthur, | Thos. L. James, | New York, | Mar. 8, 1881 |
| ” | T. O. Howe, | Wisconsin, | Jan. 5, 1882 |
| ” | W. Q. Gresham, | Indiana, | April 11, 1883 |
| ” | Frank Hatton, | Iowa, | Oct. 14, 1884 |
| Cleveland, | Wm. F. Vilas, | Wisconsin, | Mar. 7, 1885 |
| ” | Don M. Dickinson, | Michigan, | Jan. 17, 1888 |
| Harrison, | John Wanamaker, | Pennsylvania, | Mar. 6. 1889 |
| Cleveland, | Wilson S. Bissell, | New York, | Mar. 7, 1893 |
| ” | William L. Wilson, | West Virginia, | April 4, 1895 |
| McKinley, | James A. Gary, | Maryland, | Mar. 6, 1897 |
| ” | Charles Emory Smith, | Pennsylvania, | April 22, 1898 |
| Roosevelt, | Henry C. Payne, | Wisconsin, | Jan. 15, 1902 |
| ” | Robert J. Wynne, | Pennsylvania, | Oct. 10, 1904 |
| ” | Geo. B. Cortelyou, | New York, | Mar. 7, 1905 |
| ” | Geo. Von L. Meyer, | Massachusetts, | Mar. 4, 1907 |
| Taft, | Frank H. Hitchcock, | Massachusetts, | Mar. 6, 1909 |
| Wilson, | Albert S. Burleson, | Texas, | Mar. 5, 1913 |
CHAPTER V
Miscellaneous Matters
General and Financial Summary