New York State Treasurer

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The New York State Treasurer was a state cabinet officer in the State of New York between 1776 and 1926. During the re-organization of the state government under Governor Al Smith, the office was abolished and its responsibilities transferred to the new Department of Audit and Control headed by the New York State Comptroller. [1]

[edit] History

In 1776, the New York Provincial Congress appointed Peter Van Brugh Livingston Treasurer to disburse the monies raised and issued in the revolutionary operations of the day.[2]

After the establishment of the state government, the Treasurer was appointed by special act of the New York State Legislature for short periods.

Under the New York State Constitution of 1821, the Treasurer was elected by joint ballot of the State Legislature.

Under the Constitution of 1846, the office became elective by general election, and the Treasurer was elected with the other state cabinet officers in odd years to a two-year term, serving in the second year of the governor in office and the first year of the succeeding governor. The Treasurer was elected in 1895 to a three-year term, and subsequently was elected in even years and served a two-year term concurrently with the governor until the end of 1926.

[edit] List of State Treasurers

  • 1776 - 1778 Peter Van Brugh Livingston
  • April 1, 1778 - 1798 Gerardus Bancker
  • March 16, 1798 - January 31, 1803 Robert McClallen (resigned)
  • February 8, 1803 - 1808 Abraham G. Lansing
  • February 5, 1808 - 1810 David Thomas
  • February 8, 1810 - 1812 Abraham G. Lansing
  • February 18, 1812 - 1813 David Thomas
  • February 10, 1813 - 1817 Charles Z. Platt
  • February 12, 1817 - 1821 Gerret L. Dox
  • January 29, 1821 - 1824 Benjamin Knower
  • November 25, 1824 - 1825 Abraham Keyser, Jr.
  • February 16, 1825 - 1826 Gamaliel H. Barstow
  • February 14, 1826 - 1838 Abraham Keyser
  • February 5, 1838 - 1839 Gamaliel H. Barstow
  • February 4, 1839 - 1842 Jacob Haight
  • February 7, 1842 - 1845 Thomas Farrington
  • February 3, 1845 - 1846 Benjamin Enos
  • February 2, 1846 - December 31, 1847 Thomas Farrington
  • January 1, 1848 - December 31, 1851 Alvah Hunt (Whig)
  • January 1 - November 20 1852 James M. Cook (Whig) (election contested)
  • November 20, 1852 - December 31, 1853 Benjamin Welch (Dem.)
  • January 1, 1854 - December 31, 1855 Elbridge G. Spaulding
  • January 1, 1856 - December 31, 1857 Stephen Clark (American)
  • January 1, 1858 - December 31, 1859 Isaac V. Vanderpoel
  • January 1, 1860 - December 31, 1861 Philip Dorsheimer [3]
  • January 1, 1862 - December 31, 1863 William B. Lewis
  • January 1, 1864 - December 31, 1865 George W. Schuyler
  • January 1, 1866 - December 31, 1867 Joseph Howland
  • January 1, 1868 - December 31, 1871 Wheeler H. Bristol
  • January 1, 1872 - June 1, 1874 Thomas Raines
  • June 1 - August 17, 1874 Abraham Lansing (Dem.) (temporarily appointed during illness of Raines)[4] ; [5]
  • August 19, 1874 - December 31, 1875 Thomas Raines
  • January 1, 1876 - December 31, 1877 Charles N. Ross
  • January 1, 1878 - December 31, 1879 James Mackin
  • January 1, 1880 - December 31, 1881 Nathan D. Wendell
  • January 1, 1882 - December 31, 1885 Robert A. Maxwell
  • January 1, 1886 - December 31, 1889 Lawrence G. Fitzgerald
  • January 1, 1890 - December 31, 1893 Elliott Danforth
  • January 1, 1894 - December 31, 1898 Addison B. Colvin
  • January 1, 1899 - December 31, 1902 John P. Jaeckel
  • January 1, 1903 - December 31, 1904 John G. Wickser
  • January 1, 1905 - December 31, 1906 John G. Wallenmeier, Jr.
  • January 1, 1907 - December 31, 1908 Julius Hauser
  • January 1, 1909 - December 31, 1910 Thomas B. Dunn (Rep.)
  • January 1, 1911 - February 15, 1914 John J. Kennedy (committed suicide)[6]
  • February 25 - December 31, 1914 Homer D. Call
  • January 1, 1915 - December 31, 1920 James L. Wells
  • January 1, 1921 - December 31, 1922 N. Monroe Marshall
  • January 1, 1923 - December 31, 1924 George K. Shuler
  • January 1, 1925 - December 31, 1926 Lewis H. Pounds

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ [1] Department of Audit and Control, at NY Archives
  2. ^ Google Book The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 35; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
  3. ^ [2] Political Graveyard
  4. ^ NYT on June 2, 1874
  5. ^ NYT on August 20, 1874
  6. ^ in NYT on February 17, 1914
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