Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE NEW POSTMASTER GENERAL.

Henry C. Payne of Wisconsin has been selected by President Roosevelt to succeed Postmaster General Smith, who resigned. Mr. Payne is a resident of Milwaukee, where be was postmaster for ten year*. He has been a member of the Republican national committee since 1880. He is president of the Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company and of the Wisconsin Telephone Company, and was receiver for the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1893 and 1894.