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John A. GronouskiJohn Austin Gronouski (October 26, 1919 - January 7, 1996) had been the Wisconsin state commissioner of taxation, and the United States Postmaster General Biography Gronouski was born in Dunbar, Wisconsin. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1942, and then served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps until October 1945. He earned his M.A. in 1947, and his PhD in 1955, both from Wisconsin. In 1952, he ran in the election for United States Senate against Joseph McCarthy (who won reelection). In 1959, he joined the Wisconsin Department of Taxation, and was named the executive director of the Revenue Survey Commission. In 1960 he became the Wisconsin state commission of taxation, and he supported John F. Kennedy in the election campaign that year. After his well regarded revamping of the Wisconsin tax system, he was appointed postmaster general by then Kennedy in 1963. He promoted the original five-digit zip code system, and worked against racial discrimination against postal employees. He left the post office in 1968, when then-president Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him ambassador to Poland. After the Nixon administration assumed power in 1969, he was asked by Johnson to become the founding dean of the LBJ School. He remained dean until 1989, when he retired, and moved to Green Bay Wisconsin, where he was living when he died. References - Archives of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin
- Lyndon B. Johnson Library
- Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia
* New York Times obituary
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