Gideon Granger (1767–1822)
Gideon Granger, lawyer and politician, was born on 19 July 1767 in Suffield, Connecticut. After graduating from Yale, he was admitted to the bar and opened a practice in Suffield. In 1790 he married Mindwell Pease (1770–1860); they would have three children. Granger served in the Connecticut legislature before Thomas Jefferson appointed him postmaster general, a post he held from 1801 to 1814.
"Gideon Granger." Dictionary of American Biography, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936. Gale In Context: U.S. History, link.gale.com/apps/doc/BT2310012494/UHIC?u=viva_uva&sid=bookmark-UHIC&xid=5f7c8a1b. Accessed 12 Sept. 2023.
"To Thomas Jefferson from Gideon Granger, 4 June 1800," Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/01-32-02-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, vol. 32, 1 June 1800 – 16 February 1801, ed. Barbara B. Oberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, pp. 5–7.]
Gideon Granger at Find a Grave.