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

Jesse Monroe Donaldson (August 17, 1885 - March 25, 1970) was a Methodist and a Freemason who began his postal career in 1908. Under Harry S. Truman he served as Postmaster General from 1947-1953. 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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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 Brennan DeJoy

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 C. 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 C. 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 C. 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 Albert Krug (1946–1949) Oscar L. Chapman (1949–1953)
Secretary of Agriculture	Claude R. Wickard (1945) Clinton 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)

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