Wilson S. Bissell

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Wilson S. Bissell

36th United States Postmaster General
In office March 6, 1893 – March 1, 1895
Preceded by	John Wanamaker
Succeeded by	William L. Wilson
Personal details
Born	December 31, 1847 New London, New York, USA
Died	October 6, 1903 (aged 55) Buffalo, New York, USA
Political party	Democratic Party
Profession	Politician, Lawyer

Wilson Shannon Bissell (December 31, 1847 New London, Oneida County, New York - October 6, 1903 Buffalo, New York) was an American politician from New York.

He graduated from Yale University in 1869 and was a member of Skull and Bones.^[1]^:489

From 1873 to 1882 he was a law partner of future President Grover Cleveland. Bissell entered Democratic Party politics as a candidate for Presidential Elector in 1888. He served as Postmaster General under Cleveland from 1893 to 1895. In 1896 he was a delegate to the 1896 Democratic National Convention.^[2]

Apgar's Corners in Tewksbury Township, NJ (Hunterdon County) was renamed in 1893 to the village of Bissel in an effort to sway him into ordering that a post office be created in the settlement. A small post office building (no longer in existence) was established soon thereafter.^[3]

References

↑ Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society, vol. 7, 1904
↑ Wilson S. Bissell, United States Postmaster
↑ Stevenson, R.P; Potter, M., Oldtime Days In Mountainville, and Surrounding Towns, (1990), pp.92

Political offices
Preceded by John Wanamaker	United States Postmaster General Served under: Grover Cleveland 1893 – 1895	Succeeded by William L. Wilson

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 Grover Cleveland (1893–1897)

Vice President	Adlai E. Stevenson, I (1893–1897)

Secretary of State	Walter Q. Gresham (1893–1895) Richard Olney (1895–1897)

Secretary of the Treasury	John Griffin Carlisle (1893–1897)

Secretary of War	Daniel S. Lamont (1893–1897)

Attorney General	Richard Olney (1893–1895) Judson Harmon (1895–1897)

Postmaster General	Wilson S. Bissell (1893–1895) William Lyne Wilson (1895–1897)

Secretary of the Navy	Hilary A. Herbert (1893–1897)

Secretary of the Interior	Hoke Smith (1893–1896) David R. Francis (1896–1897)

Secretary of Agriculture	J. Sterling Morton (1893–1897)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 36173682 LCCN: n96002525

Persondata
Name	Bissell, Wilson Shannon
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	December 31, 1847
Place of birth	New London, New York, USA
Date of death	October 6, 1903
Place of death	Buffalo, New York, USA

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