Franlin Pierce Signed Document As President. Appointing Future Confederate.
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During thePresidency of Democrat Franklin Pierce, Virginia slave-owner Henry St.George Offutt was the Treasury Department official who audited the Post OfficeDepartment. When the Civil War began and the new Confederate Governmentbegan to organize it own Postal system, Offutt became the top deputy ofConfederate Postmaster General John Reagan.
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