James Noble Tyner

James Noble Tyner ( born January 17, 1826 in Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, † December 5, 1904 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican) of the Office in the cabinet of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant of the Postmaster held.

Life

After graduating from the Brookville Academy in 1844 James Tyner struck first on a career as a businessman. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1857 and began in Peru ( Indiana) to practice. From 1857 to 1861 he was employed as secretary to the Senate of Indiana, after which he stood until 1866 as a special agent in the service of the U.S. Post Office Department.

Policy

In 1869, his political career began with the election to the House of Representatives of the United States. He took there the place of Daniel D. Pratt one, who had moved to the Senate, and was confirmed twice in office. In 1875 he resigned from the Congress; In the same year he was appointed Second Deputy Postmaster General. President Grant then promoted him in 1876 as a successor to Marshall Jewell to the Postmaster General.

After Rutherford B. Hayes had taken over the office of the U.S. president, called this with David M. Key a new Postmaster General; Tyner was his deputy. This degradation was obviously a reason that he was guilty massive corruption within its authority in the sequence. His practices came to the public and have been criticized in the press, after which he resigned in 1881.

With this scandal his political career, however, was not finished. Benjamin Harrison, 1888 elected to the U.S. President, Tyner appointed Deputy Attorney General within the Post Office Department, a position he held for many years. When President Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 ordered an investigation within the Department, it turned out that Tyner had again operated corrupt practices. To a conviction, it did not come, because sound evidence was lacking; the findings were sufficient but to move Tyner in the same year to resign.