Jesse M. Donaldson

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Jesse M. Donaldson

Donaldson (left) in the Oval Office (1950)
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.

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

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Political offices
Preceded by Robert E. Hannegan	United States Postmaster General Served under: Harry S. Truman 1947 – 1953	Succeeded by Arthur E. Summerfield

v t e United States Postmasters General

Confederal	Franklin Bache Hazard

Federal	Osgood Pickering Habersham G. Granger Meigs McLean

Cabinet level Post Office Department	Barry Kendall Niles F. Granger Wickliffe Johnson Collamer Hall Hubbard Campbell A. Brown Holt King Blair Dennison Randall Creswell Marshall Jewell Tyner Key Maynard James Howe Gresham Hatton Vilas Dickinson Wanamaker Bissell Wilson Gary Smith Payne Wynne Cortelyou Meyer Hitchcock Burleson Hays Work New W. Brown Farley Walker Hannegan Donaldson Summerfield Day Gronouski O'Brien Watson Blount

U.S. Postal Service	Blount Klassen Bailar Bolger Carlin Casey Tisch Frank Runyon Henderson Potter Donahoe

v t e Cabinet of President Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)

Vice President	None (1945–1949) Alben W. Barkley (1949–1953)

Secretary of State	Edward Stettinius, Jr. (1945) James F. Byrnes (1945–1947) George Marshall (1947–1949) Dean Acheson (1949–1953)

Secretary of the Treasury	Henry Morgenthau, Jr. (1945) Fred M. Vinson (1945–1946) John Wesley Snyder (1946–1953)

Secretary of War	Henry L. Stimson (1945) Robert P. Patterson (1945–1947) Kenneth Claiborne Royall (1947)

Secretary of Defense	James Forrestal (1947–1949) Louis A. Johnson (1949–1950) George Marshall (1950–1951) Robert A. Lovett (1951–1953)

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) W. 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)

Authority control	VIAF: 43627996

Persondata
Name	Donaldson, Jesse M.
Alternative names
Short description	American politician
Date of birth	August 17, 1885
Place of birth	Shelbyville, Illinois, USA
Date of death	March 25, 1970
Place of death	Kansas City, Missouri, USA