Carlos E. Dexter, Jr. (c. 1842 – May 7, 1919) was an American civil servant who served a Chief Usher of the White House in Washington, D.C., from March 1893 to December 1895.
[2][3] He served in the American Civil War as a soldier in Company G of the 6th Michigan Volunteer Infantry Regiment, but was discharged on June 6, 1863, after being severely wounded.
[8] In January 1888, United States Postmaster General Donald M. Dickinson appointed Dexter to the position of postal inspector.
The patronage position was obtained from him by Henry T. Thurber, private secretary to President Grover Cleveland, and Postmaster General Dickinson.
[12] Dexter moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where in January 1896 he broke a postal fraud ring involving the United States Merchant Marine.