James Noble Tyner

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=James Noble Tyner


order=26th
title=United States Postmaster General
term_start=July 12, 1876
term_end=March 3, 1877
predecessor=Marshall Jewell
successor=David M. Key
birth_date=January 17, 1826
birth_place=Brookville, Indiana, USA
death_date=death date and age|1904|12|5|1826|1|17
death_place=Washington, D.C., USA
party=Republican
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer

James Noble Tyner (January 17, 1826 – December 5, 1904) was a lawyer, U.S. Representative and United States Postmaster General from Indiana.

Born in Brookville, Indiana, Tyner pursued an academic course and graduated from Brookville Academy in 1844. He was a businessman for ten years, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1857, commencing practice in Peru, Indiana. He served as secretary of the Indiana Senate from 1857 to 1861 and was a special agent for the United States Post Office Department from 1861 to 1866. In 1869, Tyner was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Representative-elect Daniel D. Pratt (who instead took a seat in the Senate). He was reelected in 1870 and 1872, serving from 1869 to 1875. Tyner was appointed Second Assistant Postmaster General, serving from 1875 to 1876 when promoted to Postmaster General in the cabinet of President Ulysses S. Grant, serving from 1876 to 1877. After the end of the Grant administration, he was demoted to Assistant Postmaster General, serving from 1877 until his resignation in 1881. He was a delegate to the International Postal Congress in Paris, France in 1878 and in Washington, D.C. in 1897. Tyner served as Assistant Attorney General of the Post Office Department from 1889 to 1893 and again from 1897 to 1903. He died in Washington, D.C. on December 5, 1904 and was interned their in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=13264164 James Noble Tyner] at Find A Grave