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James Albert Gary

38th United States Postmaster General
In office March 1897 – April 23, 1898
Preceded by	William L. Wilson
Succeeded by	Charles Emory Smith

Personal details
Born	(1833-10-22)October 22, 1833
Died	October 31, 1920(1920-10-31) (aged 87)
Profession	Politician, Businessman

James Albert Gary (October 22, 1833 – October 31, 1920) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the Postmaster General between 1897 and 1898. He spent much of his working life in textile manufacture in the Baltimore, Maryland, region, and was involved with cotton mills along the Patapsco and Patuxent Rivers, including Ely, Guilford, and Laurel, Maryland.

Gary was a prominent member of Baltimore's prestigious Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church and led the movement to establish Babcock Memorial Church there in memory of Brown Memorial's minister, Maltbie Babcock. He also contributed to the construction of a church in Daniels, MD, which was later named in his honor: Gary Memorial United Methodist Church .

Gary had a home in the Mount Vernon section of Baltimore and a summer place in Catonsville.

References

"In memory of Dr. Babcock" (PDF). The New York Times. May 24, 1901. Retrieved December 6, 2008. {{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
Gary Memorial United Methodist Church; http://gmuc.org/history.asp

External links

James Albert Gary at Find a Grave

Political offices
Preceded byWilliam L. Wilson	United States Postmaster General 1897 – 1898	Succeeded byCharles Emory Smith

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 Brennan DeJoy

v t e Cabinet of President William McKinley (1897–1901)
Secretary of State	John Sherman (1897–1898) William R. Day (1898) John Hay (1898–1901)
Secretary of the Treasury	Lyman J. Gage (1897–1901)
Secretary of War	Russell A. Alger (1897–1899) Elihu Root (1899–1901)
Attorney General	Joseph McKenna (1897–1898) John W. Griggs (1898–1901) Philander C. Knox (1901)
Postmaster General	James Albert Gary (1897–1898) Charles Emory Smith (1898–1901)
Secretary of the Navy	John Davis Long (1897–1901)
Secretary of the Interior	Cornelius Newton Bliss (1897–1899) Ethan A. Hitchcock (1899–1901)
Secretary of Agriculture	James Wilson (1897–1901)

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