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JOHN H. REAGAN, POSTMASTER-GENERAL
Mr. Reagan has never been prominent in national politics, though he served some years in Congress. His functions as Postmaster-General in the Seceded States have thus far been in sinecure, as the mails are still carried by the United States.
With secession fever sweeping Texas, Reagan resigned his seat in the U.S. Congress on January 15, 1861 and took part in his states secession convention fifteen days later. Although he could not convince then-governor Sam Houston to support secession, Reagan did ultimately vote with the majority of his colleagues to secede from the Union. Shortly thereafter, Reagan was sent as a state representative to the Confederate capital of Montgomery, Alabama, where he was asked by the new Confederate president, Jefferson Davis, to serve in his cabinet as postmaster general. Reagan accepted and served in this position throughout the war, doing his best to make sure the Confederate postal system functioned until the fall of Richmond in 1865. When Richmond was evacuated, Reagan fled with the rest of the Confederate cabinet and was captured along with Jefferson Davis in rural Georgia.