Two Postmasters became US Presidents later in their careers. -- Abraham Lincoln and Harry Truman. Truman held the title and signed papers but immediately turned the position and its pay over to an assistant.
The job didn't support Lincoln completely or require his full-time attention, so he also performed odd jobs such as rail splitting and began work as a land surveyor.
Lincoln kept his postal receipts in an old blue sock hidden in a wooden chest, according to Harvey Ross, whose father held the contract for the mail route going through New Salem. Lincoln's salary as postmaster depended on the amount of receipts of his office.
When Lincoln was asked for the remaining funds from his postmaster account, the money was still in the sock.
Do you think the current Postmaster General could become President of the United States someday? Comment here.
10 comments:
Hopefully not
"Do you think being a Postmaster is good training for future presidents?" Not a chance...Just because Gerald Ford was an orphan (if memory serves me correctly) does not mean being an orphan will make you a good President.
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"Do you think the current Postmaster General could become President of the United States someday?"
Good Lord...our current and previous Postmaster are two individuals that I would not trust with the responsibility of handling a Potato Gun. Having a Nation in their hands would be suicide.
PMG Donahoe would do to the good ole USA what he's currently doing to the good ole USPS...Helping it die a slow painful death...Myself, I'm moving to good ole socialist Canada....Free health care and hockey as well as jelly doughnuts and cold beer....
NO....we need a leader...not a closer.
Heck, our current PMG can't even run the Postal Service except into the ground. Wouldn't want him as the Prez. This country would cease to exist. This PMG is far out of touch with Rural America.
Couldn't be much worse than what we have now for a president.
Not even remotely. Being a postmaster, from what I have personally witnessed, is actually training to be a narcissistic, overpaid, underworked figurehead. The postal service could save millions each year by eliminating postmasters and utilizing regional managing and local supervisors.
He can follow his aspirations and people would vote accordingly.
No, we need a leader who can do his own thinking. Postmasters are micro managed and can not even tie their own shoes without someone running a report on it two days later. I bet Abe Lincoln knew that in order to deliver mail, post offices had to be staffed with carriers.
Is this a joke? You want to go from community organizer to POTUS, and when that has apparently failed, insert a Postmaster General that can't turn a multi-billion dollar, government protected agency to solvency? Good grief!
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