United States Post Office Department

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United States Post Office Department

The Post Office Department is the former name of the United States Postal Service

United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service is an Independent agencies of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States....
when it was a Cabinet

United States Cabinet

The United States Cabinet is composed of the most senior appointed officers of the executive branch of the federal government of the United States, and its existence dates back to the first United States of America President of the United States, George Washington, who appointed a Cabinet of four people to advise and assist him in his dutie...
department. It was headed by the United States Postmaster General

United States Postmaster General

The United States Postmaster General is the executive head of the United States Postal Service. The office, in one form or another, is older than both the United States Constitution and the United States Declaration of Independence....
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The Postal Service Act

Postal Service Act

The Postal Service Act was a piece of United States federal law that established the United States Post Office Department. It was signed into law by President of the United States George Washington on February 20, 1792....
signed by President

President of the United States

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George Washington

George Washington

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on February 20, 1792 established the Department. Postmaster General John McLean

John McLean

John McLean was an United States jurist and politician who served in the United States Congress, as U.S. Postmaster General, and as a justice on the Ohio Supreme Court and U.S....
was the first to call it the Post Office Department rather than just the "Post Office." The organization received a boost in prestige when President Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson

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invited his Postmaster General, William T. Barry

William T. Barry

William Taylor Barry was an United States statesman and jurist.Born near Lunenburg, Virginia, he moved to Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1796 with his parents John Barry, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and Susannah Barry....
, to sit as a member of the Cabinet.

During the Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, postal services in the Confederacy

Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America formed as the government set up from 1861 to 1865 by eleven Southern United States U.S. state of the United States of America that had declared their secession from the U.S....
were provided by the Confederate States of America Post Office Department, headed by Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan

John Henninger Reagan

John Henninger Reagan , was a leading History of the United States Politics of the United States from the U.S. state of Texas. A United States Democratic Party, Reagan left the United States House of Representatives when his state secession from the Union to join the Confederate States of America....
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The Postal Reorganization Act

Postal Reorganization Act

The Postal Reorganization Act of 1970 abolished the United States Post Office Department, a part of the cabinet, and created the United States Postal Service, a corporation-like independent agency with an Government monopoly on the delivery of mail in the United States....
signed by President

President of the United States

Richard Nixon

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on August 12, 1970, replaced the cabinet-level Post Office Department with the independent United States Postal Service

United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service is an Independent agencies of the United States government responsible for providing postal service in the United States....
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