Treasurer of the United States

Treasurer of the United States
Official Seal of the Treasury
Incumbent Rosa Gumataotao Rios since August 6, 2009
Inaugural holder	Michael Hillegas
Formation	September 6, 1777
Website	treasury.gov

The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury who 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. As of 2002 the Office of the Treasurer underwent a major reorganization. The Treasurer now advises the Director of the Mint, the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Deputy Secretary and the Secretary of the Treasury on matters relating to coinage, currency and the production of other instruments by the United States.^[1]

The Treasurer's signature, as well as the Treasury Secretary's, appear on Federal Reserve Notes.

President Harry S. Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark as the first woman Treasurer in 1949. Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman, and six of the past ten Treasurers have also been Hispanic.

List of Treasurers

No.	Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Michael Hillegas	July 29, 1775 – September 11, 1789	George Washington; Also served under Confederation Congress
	Hillegas served jointly with George Clymer until August 6, 1776. The title of the office was "Treasurer of the United Colonies" until May 1777.[2]
2	Samuel Meredith	September 11, 1789 – December 1, 1801	George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson
3	Thomas T. Tucker	December 1, 1801 – May 2, 1828 (26 years, 153 days)	Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams
4	William Clark	June 4, 1828 – May 31, 1829	John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson
5	John Campbell	May 26, 1829 – July 20, 1839	Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
6	William Selden	July 22, 1839 – November 23, 1850	Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore
7	John Sloane	November 27, 1850 – April 1, 1853	Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce
8	Samuel L. Casey	April 4, 1853 – December 22, 1859	Franklin Pierce James Buchanan
9	William C. Price	February 28, 1860 – March 21, 1861	James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln
10	Francis E. Spinner	March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875	Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant
11	John C. New	June 30, 1875 – July 1, 1876	Ulysses S. Grant
12	A. U. Wyman	July 1, 1876 – June 30, 1877	Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes
13	James Gilfillan	July 1, 1877 – March 31, 1883	Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur
14	A. U. Wyman	April 1, 1883 – April 30, 1885	Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland
15	Conrad N. Jordan	May 1, 1885 – March 23, 1887	Grover Cleveland
16	James W. Hyatt	May 24, 1887 – May 10, 1889	Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
17	James N. Huston	May 11, 1889 – April 24, 1891	Benjamin Harrison
18	Enos H. Nebecker	April 25, 1891 – May 31, 1893	Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland
19	Daniel N. Morgan	June 1, 1893 – June 30, 1897	Grover Cleveland William McKinley
20	Ellis H. Roberts	July 1, 1897 – June 30, 1905	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt
21	Charles H. Treat	July 1, 1905 – October 30, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft
22	Lee McClung	November 1, 1909 – November 21, 1912	William Howard Taft
23	Carmi A. Thompson	November 22, 1912 – March 31, 1913	William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
24	John Burke	April 1, 1913 – January 5, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
25	Frank White	May 2, 1921 – May 1, 1928	Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge
26	Harold Theodore Tate	May 31, 1928 – January 17, 1929	Calvin Coolidge
27	W. O. Woods	January 18, 1929 – May 31, 1933	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28	William Alexander Julian	June 1, 1933 – May 29, 1949	Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman
29	Georgia Neese Clark	June 21, 1949 – January 27, 1953	Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower
30	Ivy Baker Priest	January 28, 1953 – January 29, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy
31	Elizabeth Rudel Smith	January 30, 1961 – April 13, 1962	John F. Kennedy
	264 days vacant
32	Kathryn O'Hay Granahan	January 3, 1963 – November 22, 1966	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
	897 days vacant
33	Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis	May 8, 1969 – July 3, 1971	Richard Nixon
	166 days vacant
34	Romana Acosta Bañuelos	December 17, 1971 – February 14, 1974	Richard Nixon
	126 days vacant
35	Francine Irving Neff	June 21, 1974 – January 19, 1977	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
	235 days vacant
36	Azie Taylor Morton	September 12, 1977 – January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
	55 days vacant
37	Angela Marie Buchanan	March 17, 1981 – July 5, 1983	Ronald Reagan
	78 days vacant
38	Katherine D. Ortega	September 22, 1983 – July 1, 1989	Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush
	162 days vacant
39	Catalina Vasquez Villalpando	December 11, 1989 – January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
	404 days vacant
40	Mary Ellen Withrow	March 1, 1994 – January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
	207 days vacant
41	Rosario Marin	August 16, 2001 – June 30, 2003	George W. Bush
	568 days vacant
42	Anna Escobedo Cabral	January 19, 2005 – January 20, 2009	George W. Bush
	197 days vacant
43	Rosa Gumataotao Rios	August 6, 2009 – present	Barack Obama

The times the office has been vacant for the last 50 years add up to 3,359 days, more than 9 years.

References

1. ↑
2. ↑ US Treasury website "History of the Treasury"

External links

• Treasurers of the United States
• United States Department of the Treasury

Treasurers of the United States Hillegas Meredith Tucker Wm Clark Campbell Selden Sloane Casey Price Spinner New Wyman Gilfillan Wyman Jordan Hyatt Huston Nebecker Morgan Roberts Treat McClung Thompson Burke White Tate Woods Julian G Clark Priest Smith Granahan Kabis (Elston) Bañuelos Neff Morton Buchanan Ortega Villalpando Withrow Marin Cabral Rios