Jesse M. Donaldson

Jesse M. Donaldson
Jesse M. Donaldson
53rd United States Postmaster General
In office
1947–1953
Preceded by Robert E. Hannegan
Succeeded by Arthur E. Summerfield
Personal details
Born August 17, 1885
Shelbyville, Illinois, USA
Died March 25, 1970 (aged 84)
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Profession Politician, Civil servant
Religion Methodist

Jesse Monroe Donaldson (August 17, 1885 - March 25, 1970) was the first United States Postmaster General to have started his career as a letter carrier.[1] A Methodist and a Freemason, Donaldson began his postal career in 1908 as one of three mailmen for the Shelbyville, Illinois, post office, then rose through the ranks of the Department, being appointed Postmaster General by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 and serving for the remainder of the Truman Administration until 1953. During this period he modernized the postal service and also announced the "3 cent Gold Star Mothers" stamp in recognition of the Sullivan brothers' mother. He died in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1970.

References

  1. ^ "Donaldson, Jesse Monroe", in Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989, Robert Sobel, ed. (Greenwood Publishing Group, 1990) p108

External links

Political offices
Preceded by
Robert E. Hannegan		 United States Postmaster General
Served under: Harry S. Truman
1947 – 1953		 Succeeded by
Arthur E. Summerfield
v · d · eCabinet of President Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
Vice President
None (1945–1949) • Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)
 Harry S. Truman, thirty-third President of the United States
Secretary of State
Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1945) • James F. Byrnes (1945–1947) • George Marshall (1947–1949) • Dean Acheson (1949–1953)
Secretary of War
Secretary of Defense
James Forrestal (1947–1949) • Louis Arthur Johnson (1949–1950) • George Marshall (1950–1951) • Robert A. Lovett (1951–1953)
Secretary of the Treasury
Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1945) • Fred M. Vinson (1945–1946) • John W. Snyder (1946–1953)
Attorney General
Francis Biddle (1945) • Tom C. Clark (1945–1949) • J. Howard McGrath (1949–1952) • James P. McGranery (1952–1953)
Postmaster General
Frank Comerford Walker (1945) • Robert E. Hannegan (1945–1947) • Jesse M. Donaldson (1947–1953)
Secretary of the Navy
James Forrestal (1945–1947)
Secretary of the Interior
Harold L. Ickes (1945–1946) • Julius A. Krug (1946–1949) • Oscar L. Chapman (1949–1953)
Secretary of the Agriculture
Claude R. Wickard (1945) • Clinton P. Anderson (1945–1948) • Charles F. Brannan (1948–1953)
Secretary of Commerce
Henry A. Wallace (1945–1946) • William Averell Harriman (1946–1948) • Charles W. Sawyer (1948–1953)
Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins (1945) • Lewis B. Schwellenbach (1945–1948) • Maurice J. Tobin (1948–1953)




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