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 374 HISTORY and Greene. At the close of Ms term in Congress, his numer- ous friends from all parts of the country, were bringing him forward as a candidate for clerk of the House of Representa- tives, which was superseded by his being appointed Assistant Post-master General, on the accession of Gen. Jackson to the Presidency, in 1829. To his skill, judgment and perseyerance, the Post Office De- partment owes much of its success for the past twenty-five years. It will long continue to feel the beneficial effects of his services. His severe and unremitting labors impaired his health ; and in 1850, after the accession of Gen. Taylor, he voluntarily resigned, and retired from the office which he had held from his appoint- ment, in 1829. Kelaxation from the arduous duties of the office, and his visit to Panama, as agent of the Mail Steamship Company, to regulate and improve our postal system in that quarter, somewhat restored him; and on President Pierce coming into office, he yielded to the request of friends, and consented to resume his duties of First Assistant Post-master General. His strength however, impaired by pulmonary dis- ease, was unequal to the labors of the position, and he soon sunk under them. He was prompt in the dispatch of busi- ness, easy, frank, and candid in his intercourse, and these qualities, added to his extensive knowledge, made him a most popular public officer. He was universally esteemed. As a husband and father he was devoted, kind and affectionate. He was beloved, and exemplary in all the relations of life. In his death the national service has sustained a great loss, society an ornament, and mankind a friend. At Alexandria, (Ya.,) on the 21st of November, 1854, Mr. Frederick D. Haneord, of Hobart, (N. Y.) aged thirty-two years. For several years he was principal of the Hobart Seminary. His remains have been deposited in the burial ground of the Episcopal church in Hobart. Mr. Hanford was one of the earliest graduates of the State