RARE \"Postmaster General\" Henry Clay Payne Cut Signature For Sale

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RARE \"Postmaster General\" Henry Clay Payne Cut Signature:
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Up for sale a RARE! "Postmaster General" Henry Clay Payne Cut Signature.

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Henry Clay Payne

(November 23, 1843 – October 4, 1904) was U.S. Postmaster General from 1902 to 1904

under Pres. Theodore Roosevelt. He died in office and was

buried at Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was also a

chairman of the Republican National Committee.  Payne

was born in Ashfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts,

on November 23, 1843, though his birth is sometimes listed incorrectly as

September 23. He spent his youth in Massachusetts,

and attempted to enlist for the Union Army,

but he was rejected from service due to poor health. In 1859, he was graduated

from the Academy of

Shelburne Falls. In 1863, he moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he found work

as a dry goods merchant. In 1872 he began his political career with the Young Men's

Republican Club of Milwaukee County. He worked his way up to become

secretary and then chairman for the organization. In 1876, Payne was appointed

Postmaster of Milwaukee, a position he held for the next ten years.[2] He transferred his organizational skills to his next position as president

of Wisconsin

Telephone Company in 1885, and successively served as director for

the First

National Bank of Milwaukee and president of the Milwaukee and

Northern Railroad, The Milwaukee

Electric Railway and Light Company and the Milwaukee and

Cream City Traction Company. In his duties as president of Milwaukee

Electric Railway and Light, Payne instituted free park concerts at many of

Milwaukee's parks, including Lake Park.[3] In 1893 he was elected president of the American

Street Railway Association in recognition for his service to the

street railways of Milwaukee, and later in August 1893, he was appointed

receiver for the bankrupt Northern Pacific Railway.[4]

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