Harry Stewart New

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Harry Stewart New
48th United States Postmaster General
In office March 4, 1923 – March 4, 1929
Preceded by	Hubert Work
Succeeded by	Walter F. Brown
Born	December 31, 1858(1858-12-31) Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Died	May 9, 1937 (aged 78) Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician, Journalist

Harry Stewart New (December 31, 1858 – May 9, 1937) was a U.S. politician, journalist, and Spanish-American War veteran.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, New attended Butler University before going to work with the Indianapolis Journal where he was a reporter, editor, part owner, and publisher from 1878 to 1903. He served in the Indiana State Senate from 1896 to 1900 and served in the Spanish-American War as captain and assistant adjutant general of the 7th Army Corps. He was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1900 to 1912, serving as chairman from 1907 to 1908, and later engaged in the stone quarrying and construction business.

New got back into politics when he was elected to the United States Senate in 1916, defeating incumbent John W. Kern. In the Senate, he served as chairman of the Committee on Territories and the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions. He was also a "wet" or an anti-prohibitionist. He was defeated by Albert J. Beveridge for renomination in 1922 who lost the general election to Samuel M. Ralston. He was then appointed Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Warren G. Harding in 1923 and was reappointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1925. As Postmaster General, New proposed two influential ideas, the honoring of distinguished Americans with stamps and flavored glue on the back of stamps including a gin-flavored stamp that never made it to production.

After the end of the Coolidge Administration, New retired from active business pursuits and resided in Washington, D.C.. In 1933, he was appointed a United States Commissioner to the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Baltimore, Maryland on May 9, 1937 and was interned in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis.

[edit] External links

• Harry Stewart New at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Harry Stewart New at Find A Grave

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