Bio: Wendt, Harold (Postmaster Retirement – 1971)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Wendt, Graham

---------Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 24 Jun 1971

Retirement, Monday, May 31, 1971, brought to a close a civil service career of almost 41 years for Harold A. Wendt, Owen (Clark Co., Wis.) Postmaster.

Wendt has been postmaster here since 1957, when the late President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, appointed him to succeed Roy C. Graham, who had been postmaster for 22 years before retirement.

Before becoming postmaster, Wendt had been a post office employee in Owen for 27 years, most of that time as clerk. He aspired to the office of postmaster through a law which provides for promotion – appointment after qualifying through a regular civil service examination.

His postal career, spanning the terms of seven presidents of the United States, actually had its beginning during high school days in Owen, when he served as a temporary clerk. It was interrupted by a tour of duty in New Mexico with the U.S. Department of the Interior, and a training course in radio communication in Chicago.