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Prior to becoming Postmaster General, Kendall was editor of both the Argus of Western America, the organ of Kentucky progressivism, and the Washington Globe, the organ for the Jackson Administration. He tutored the children of Henry Clay , who was an arch political enemy of Jackson, and was nursed back to health after a grave illness by Clay's wife, Lucretia.

  Before William T Barry
  Title United States Postmaster General
  Years 1835 &ndash 1840