Wilson S. Bissell

Who was Wilson S. Bissell?

Wilson Shannon Bissell was an American politician from New York.

He graduated from Yale University in 1869 and was a member of Skull and Bones.

From 1873 to 1882 he was a law partner of future President Grover Cleveland. Bissell entered Democratic Party politics as a candidate for Presidential Elector in 1888. He served as Postmaster General under Cleveland from 1893 to 1895. In 1896 he was a delegate to the 1896 Democratic National Convention.

Apgar's Corners in Tewksbury Township, NJ was renamed in 1893 to the village of Bissel in an effort to sway him into ordering that a post office be created in the settlement. A small post office building was established soon thereafter.