Amos Kendall

Amos Kendall ( born August 16, 1789 in Dunstable, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, † November 12, 1869 in Washington DC ) was an American politician who belonged to the cabinets of Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren as Postmaster General.

After attending the Lawrence Academy, a secondary school in Groton, until 1807, Amos Kendall studied at Dartmouth College. Then he got into the newspaper business: for instance, he was the chief editor of the Argus of Western America, the institution of progressive politicians in Kentucky, and the Washington Globe, which represented the policy of the Jackson administration. He worked closely with journalist Francis Preston Blair.

Although he was a member of the Democratic Party of Andrew Jackson, Kendall also cultivated relations with Henry Clay, the Whig party leaders and political enemy of Jackson. He taught Clays children and was, when he was dangerously ill, nursed back to health by his wife Lucretia.

About the Office of the Postmaster General also, which he took over in 1835 as the successor to William Taylor Barry, Amos Kendall is regarded by historians as the intellectual leader of the Jackson administration. Special influence is attributed to him in terms of the transformation of the United States of an agriculturally -dominated republic to a market-oriented state.

1840 retired from Kendall from the government. As a philanthropist, he emerged again in 1857, when he founded a school in Washington, which became the Gallaudet University for deaf and hard of hearing students later.

As Amos Kendall died in 1869, he was the last surviving member of the cabinets of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren. Named after him are the Kendall County in Illinois and the city of Kendall in New York State.

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