The Treasurer of the United States is the only position within the United States Department of the Treasury older than the Department itself. It was established on September 6, 1777.
The Treasurer was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury. Responsibility for oversight of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the United States Mint, and the United States Savings Bonds Division (now the Savings Bond Marketing Office within the Bureau of the Public Debt) was assigned to the Treasurer in 1981. The Treasurer reports to the Secretary of the Treasury through the Assistant Secretary (Management)/Chief Financial Officer.
The Treasurer along with the Secretary must sign Federal Reserve notes before they can become legal tender.
In 1949, eager to appoint a woman to a prominent political position President Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer. Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman.
Treasurers of the United States
Name |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
Michael Hillegas |
July 29, 1775 - September 11, 1789 |
none |
Samuel Meredith |
September 11, 1789 - October 31, 1801 |
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson |
Thomas T. Tucker |
December 1, 1801 - May 2, 1828 |
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams |
William Clark |
June 4, 1828 - May 31, 1829 |
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson |
John Campbell |
May 26, 1829 - July 20, 1839 |
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren |
William Selden |
July 22, 1839 - November 23, 1850 |
Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore |
John Sloan |
November 27, 1850 - April 6, 1852 |
Millard Fillmore |
Samuel Casey |
April 4, 1853 - December 22, 1859 |
Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan |
William C. Price |
February 28, 1860 - March 21, 1861 |
Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln |
F.E. Spinner |
March 16, 1861 - July 30, 1875 |
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant |
John C. New |
June 30, 1875 - July 1, 1876 |
Ulysses S. Grant |
A.U. Wyman |
July 1, 1876 - June 30, 1877 |
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes |
James Gilfillan |
July 1, 1876 - June 30, 1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur |
Conrad N. Jordan |
May 1, 1885 - March 23, 1887 |
Grover Cleveland |
James W. Hyatt |
May 24, 1887 - May 10, 1889 |
Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison |
J.N. Huston |
May 11, 1889 - April 24, 1891 |
Benjamin Harrison |
Enos H. Nebecker |
April 25, 1891 - May 31, 1893 |
Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland |
D.N. Morgan |
June 1, 1893 - June 30, 1897 |
Grover Cleveland, William McKinley |
Ellis H. Roberts |
July 1, 1897 - June 30, 1905 |
William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt |
Charles H. Treat |
July 1, 1905 - October 30, 1909 |
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft |
Lee McClung |
November 1, 1909 - November 21, 1912 |
William Howard Taft |
Carmi A. Thompson |
November 22, 1912 - March 31, 1913 |
William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson |
John Burke |
April 1, 1913 - January 5, 1921 |
Woodrow Wilson |
Frank White |
May 2, 1921 - May 1, 1928 |
Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge |
H.T. Tate |
May 31, 1928 - January 17, 1929 |
Calvin Coolidge |
W.O. Woods |
January 18, 1929 - May 31, 1933 |
Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
W. A. Julian |
June 1, 1933 - May 29, 1949 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman |
Georgia Neese Clark |
June 21, 1949 - January 27, 1953 |
Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Ivy Baker Priest |
January 28, 1953 - January 29, 1961 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy |
Elizabeth Rudel Smith |
January 30, 1961 - April 13, 1962 |
John F. Kennedy |
Kathryn O'Hay Granahan |
January 3, 1963 - November 22, 1966 |
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson |
Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis |
May 8, 1969 - July 3, 1971 |
Richard Nixon |
Romana Acosta Bañuelos |
December 17, 1971 - February 14, 1974 |
Richard Nixon |
Francine Irving Neff |
June 21, 1974 - January 19, 1977 |
Gerald Ford |
Azie Taylor Morton |
September 12, 1977 - January 20, 1981 |
Jimmy Carter |
Angela Marie Buchanan |
March 17, 1981 - July 5, 1983 |
Ronald Reagan |
Katherine D. Ortega |
September 22, 1983 - July 1, 1989 |
Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush |
Catalina Vasquez Villalpando |
November 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 |
George H. W. Bush |
Mary Ellen Withrow |
March 1, 1994 - January 20, 2001 |
Bill Clinton |
Rosario Marin |
August 16, 2001 - June 30, 2003 |
George W. Bush |
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