Regis Henri Post

Regis Henri Post ( born January 28, 1870 in New York City; † October 5, 1944 in Nantucket, Massachusetts ) was an American politician and from 1907 to 1909 governor of Puerto Rico.

Career

About the youth and education of Regis post nothing is handed down. He embarked on a political career and was in the years 1899 and 1900 deputy in the New York State Assembly. In 1903 he was auditor in Puerto Rico; a year later he was there as Secretary of State executive official of the territorial administration.

In 1907 he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt as the successor of Beekman Winthrop as the new Governor of Puerto Rico. This post he held between 18 April 1907 to 6 November 1909. During this time there were tensions between him and the local parliament. This meant that in 1909 no household could be adopted and had President William Howard Taft to intervene. He tried the situation by the so-called Olmsted to calm Amendment.

In the years 1913 and 1914 he worked with the Ambulance Corps in France. Also in 1914 a candidate post had belonged to a member of the Progressive Party unsuccessfully in the first electoral district of New York for the U.S. House of Representatives, where once his ancestor Jotham Post ( 1771-1817 ). In 1917 he was a member of the American Red Cross. He died on 5 October 1944 in Nantucket.