E. T. Klassen

Elmer ( born 6 November 1908 in Hillsboro, Marion County, Kansas; † 6 March 1990 in Palm Harbor, Florida) T. classes was an American businessman, who held the office of United States Postmaster General 1972-1975.

Raised in California classes, who never attended college, went to work in San Francisco after his high school graduation as a messenger boy for the settlement of the American Can Corporation. He got into the business, the cans produced continuously and was on April 28, 1965, he finally its president. In 1968 he put this post after a dispute with the chairman of the company down unexpectedly.

In 1969, classes in the services of the United States Postal Service. Until 1971, he served as Deputy Postmaster General, and thus as a proxy of Winton M. Blount. He played an important role in the implementation of the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, which provided, convert the Post Office in an independent federal agency. In July 1971 he graduated as a representative of the Postal Service from a collective agreement with seven postal unions, representing about 600,000 employees.

In the same year he became the first Postmaster General, who was appointed not by the U.S. President, but by the Postal Service 's Board of Governors. He exercised this office from January 1, 1972 to February 16, 1975; after which he retired and moved to Florida. At this time, however, were increasing already critical voices from the policy of his administration, concerned the financial and organizational problems.