United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
The United States House Committee on Post Office and Post Roads was a
The jurisdiction of the committee extended to all proposed legislation relating to the carrying of the mails, both foreign and domestic. It included the determination of the location, construction, and maintenance of post offices and post roads; the acquisition, lease, or transfer of realty or facilities for postal purposes; and certain aspects of the employment and management of postal employees, such as the pay and leave of letter carriers, and the settlement of claims brought by employees or contractors. It included the regulation of the
As part of its responsibility the committee investigated the management of postal facilities, contracts for carrying the mail, and other subjects such as the forgery of postal money orders.[1]
In 1885 the jurisdiction of the committee was expanded to include appropriation authority. The committee prepared Post Office
Chairmen
Chair | Party | State | Start of Service | End of Service |
---|---|---|---|---|
John Rhea | Democratic-Republican | Tennessee | 1807 | 1815 |
Samuel D. Ingham | Democratic-Republican | Pennsylvania | 1815 | 1818 |
Arthur Livermore | Democratic-Republican | New Hampshire | 1818 | 1821 |
Francis Johnson | Democratic-Republican | Kentucky | 1821 | 1823 |
John Telemachus Johnson | Democratic-Republican | Kentucky | 1823 | 1825 |
Samuel D. Ingham | Jacksonian | Pennsylvania | 1825 | 1828 |
Samuel McKean | Jacksonian | Pennsylvania | 1828 | 1829 |
Richard Mentor Johnson | Jacksonian | Kentucky | 1829 | 1832 |
Henry William Connor | Jacksonian | North Carolina | 1832 | 1839 |
James Iver McKay |
Democratic | North Carolina | 1839 | 1841 |
George N. Briggs | Whig | Massachusetts | 1841 | 1843 |
George Washington Hopkins | Democratic | Virginia | 1843 | 1847 |
William L. Goggin | Whig | Virginia | 1847 | 1849 |
Emery D. Potter | Democratic | Ohio | 1849 | 1851 |
Edson B. Olds | Democratic | Ohio | 1851 | 1855 |
Daniel Mace | Opposition | Indiana | 1855 | 1857 |
William Hayden English | Democratic | Indiana | 1857 | 1859 |
Schuyler Colfax | Republican | Indiana | 1859 | 1863 |
John B. Alley | Republican | Massachusetts | 1863 | 1867 |
John F. Farnsworth | Republican | Illinois | 1867 | 1873 |
John Black Packer |
Republican | Pennsylvania | 1873 | 1875 |
John Bullock Clark Jr. | Democratic | Missouri | 1875 | 1877 |
Alfred Moore Waddell | Democratic | North Carolina | 1877 | 1879 |
Hernando Money | Democratic | Mississippi | 1879 | 1881 |
Henry H. Bingham | Republican | Pennsylvania | 1881 | 1883 |
Hernando Money | Democratic | Mississippi | 1883 | 1885 |
James Henderson Blount | Democratic | Georgia | 1885 | 1889 |
Henry H. Bingham | Republican | Pennsylvania | 1889 | 1891 |
John S. Henderson | Democratic | North Carolina | 1891 | 1895 |
Eugene F. Loud | Republican | California | 1895 | 1903 |
Jesse Overstreet | Republican | Indiana | 1903 | 1909 |
John W. Weeks | Republican | Massachusetts | 1909 | 1911 |
John A. Moon | Democratic | Tennessee | 1911 | 1919 |
Halvor Steenerson | Republican | Minnesota | 1919 | 1923 |
William Walton Griest |
Republican | Pennsylvania | 1923 | 1929 |
Archie D. Sanders | Republican | New York | 1929 | 1931 |
James M. Mead | Democratic | New York | 1931 | 1938 |
Milton A. Romjue | Democratic | Missouri | 1939 | 1943 |
Thomas G. Burch | Democratic | Virginia | 1943 | 1946 |
George D. O'Brien | Democratic | Michigan | 1946 | 1947 |
References
- ^ a b c d "Chapter 16. Records of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee and Its Predecessors". Guide to the Records of the U.S. House of Representatives at the National Archives, 1789-1989 (Record Group 233). National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved July 26, 2016.
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