Treasurer of the United States

Treasurer of the United States
	Incumbent; Vacant; since January 14, 2020
Appointer	The President
Formation	September 6, 1777

Last updated January 02, 2021

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. The Treasurer remains the depositary officer of the United States with regard to deposits of gold, Special Drawing Rights, and financial gifts to the Library of Congress.^[1]^[2] As such, the office has nominal oversight of the United States Bullion Depository. The Treasurer's signature appears together with that of the Secretary of the Treasury on all Federal Reserve Notes.

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. In 2002 the Office of the Treasurer underwent a major reorganization that removed these formal oversight duties. The Treasurer now advises the Director of the Mint, the Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the Secretary, and the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury on matters relating to coinage, currency and the production of other instruments by the United States.^[3]

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

The requirement of Senate confirmation for the appointment was dropped in August 2012.^[4]

In the last 100 years, the length of time the office has been vacant totals more than 4,000 days or eleven years.

List of Treasurers

No.	Name	Term of office	President(s) served under
1	Michael Hillegas	July 29, 1775 – September 11, 1789 (14 years, 44 days)	George Washington (also served under Confederation Congress)
1	Hillegas served jointly with George Clymer until August 6, 1776. The title of the office was "Treasurer of the United Colonies" until May 1777.^[5]
2	Samuel Meredith	September 11, 1789 – December 1, 1801 (12 years, 81 days)	George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson
3	Thomas T. Tucker	December 1, 1801 – May 2, 1828 (26 years, 153 days) (served the longest term)	Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams
33 days vacant
4	William Clark	June 4, 1828 – May 26, 1829 (356 days)	John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson
5	John Campbell	May 26, 1829 – July 20, 1839 (10 years, 55 days)	Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren
2 days vacant
6	William Selden	July 22, 1839 – November 23, 1850 (11 years, 124 days)	Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore
4 days vacant
7	John Sloane	November 27, 1850 – April 1, 1853 (2 years, 125 days)	Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce
3 days vacant
8	Samuel L. Casey	April 4, 1853 – December 22, 1859 (6 years, 262 days)	Franklin Pierce James Buchanan
68 days vacant
9	William C. Price	February 28, 1860 – March 21, 1861 (1 year, 21 days)	James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln
10	Francis E. Spinner	March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875 (14 years, 136 days)	Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant
11	John C. New	June 30, 1875 – July 1, 1876 (1 year, 1 day)	Ulysses S. Grant
12	A. U. Wyman	July 1, 1876 – June 30, 1877 (364 days)	Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes
13	James Gilfillan	July 1, 1877 – March 31, 1883 (5 years, 273 days)	Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur
14	A. U. Wyman	April 1, 1883 – April 30, 1885 (2 years, 29 days)	Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland
15	Conrad N. Jordan	May 1, 1885 – March 23, 1887 (1 year, 326 days)	Grover Cleveland
62 days vacant
16	James W. Hyatt	May 24, 1887 – May 10, 1889 (1 year, 351 days)	Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison
17	James N. Huston	May 11, 1889 – April 24, 1891 (1 year, 348 days)	Benjamin Harrison
18	Enos H. Nebecker	April 25, 1891 – May 31, 1893 (2 years, 36 days)	Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland
19	Daniel N. Morgan	June 1, 1893 – June 30, 1897 (4 years, 29 days)	Grover Cleveland William McKinley
20	Ellis H. Roberts	July 1, 1897 – June 30, 1905 (7 years, 364 days)	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt
21	Charles H. Treat	July 1, 1905 – October 30, 1909 (4 years, 121 days)	Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft
22	Lee McClung	November 1, 1909 – November 21, 1912 (3 years, 20 days)	William Howard Taft
23	Carmi A. Thompson	November 22, 1912 – March 31, 1913 (129 days) (served the shortest term)	William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson
24	John Burke	April 1, 1913 – January 5, 1921 (7 years, 279 days)	Woodrow Wilson
117 days vacant
25	Frank White	May 2, 1921 – May 1, 1928 (6 years, 365 days)	Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge
30 days vacant
26	Harold Theodore Tate	May 31, 1928 – January 17, 1929 (231 days)	Calvin Coolidge
27	W. O. Woods	January 18, 1929 – May 31, 1933 (4 years, 133 days)	Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt
28	William Alexander Julian	June 1, 1933 – May 29, 1949 (15 years, 362 days)	Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman
23 days vacant
29	Georgia Neese Clark	June 21, 1949 – January 27, 1953 (3 years, 220 days)	Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower
30	Ivy Baker Priest	January 28, 1953 – January 29, 1961 (8 years, 1 day)	Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy
31	Elizabeth Rudel Smith	January 30, 1961 – April 13, 1962 (1 year, 73 days)	John F. Kennedy
265 days vacant
32	Kathryn O'Hay Granahan	January 3, 1963 – November 22, 1966 (3 years, 323 days)	John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson
898 days vacant
33	Dorothy Andrews Elston ^[6]	May 8, 1969 – July 3, 1971 (2 years, 56 days)	Richard Nixon
167 days vacant
34	Romana Acosta Bañuelos	December 17, 1971 – February 14, 1974 (2 years, 59 days)	Richard Nixon
127 days vacant
35	Francine Irving Neff	June 21, 1974 – January 19, 1977 (2 years, 212 days)	Richard Nixon Gerald Ford
236 days vacant
36	Azie Taylor Morton	September 12, 1977 – January 20, 1981 (3 years, 130 days)	Jimmy Carter
56 days vacant
37	Angela Marie Buchanan	March 17, 1981 – July 5, 1983 (2 years, 110 days)	Ronald Reagan
79 days vacant
38	Katherine D. Ortega	September 22, 1983 – July 1, 1989 (5 years, 282 days)	Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush
163 days vacant
39	Catalina Vasquez Villalpando	December 11, 1989 – January 20, 1993 (3 years, 40 days)	George H. W. Bush
405 days vacant
40	Mary Ellen Withrow	March 1, 1994 – January 20, 2001 (6 years, 325 days)	Bill Clinton
208 days vacant
41	Rosario Marin	August 16, 2001 – June 30, 2003 (1 year, 318 days)	George W. Bush
569 days vacant
42	Anna Escobedo Cabral	January 19, 2005 – January 20, 2009 (4 years, 1 day)	George W. Bush
198 days vacant
43	Rosa Gumataotao Rios	August 6, 2009 – July 8, 2016 (6 years, 337 days)	Barack Obama
346 days vacant
44	Jovita Carranza ^[7]	June 19, 2017 – January 14, 2020 (2 years, 209 days)	Donald Trump
Vacant as of January 14,2020^[update]

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References

↑ 12 U.S.C. § 467 : Deposits of gold coin, gold certificates, and Special Drawing Right certificates with United States Treasurer
↑ 2 U.S.C. § 157 : Funds of Library of Congress Trust Fund Board; management of
↑ "About: The Treasurer", United States Department of the Treasury website.
↑ Carey, Maeve P., Presidential Appointments, the Senate's Confirmation Process, and Changes Made in the 112th Congress, Congressional Research Service, Oct. 9, 2012.
↑ US Treasury website "History of the Treasury"
↑ Treasurers of the United States
↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration" Archived 2017-05-17 at the Wayback Machine , The White House, April 28, 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-28.

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[1] 12 U.S.C. § 467 : Deposits of gold coin, gold certificates, and Special Drawing Right certificates with United States Treasurer

[2] 2 U.S.C. § 157 : Funds of Library of Congress Trust Fund Board; management of

[3] "About: The Treasurer", United States Department of the Treasury website.

[4] Carey, Maeve P., Presidential Appointments, the Senate's Confirmation Process, and Changes Made in the 112th Congress, Congressional Research Service, Oct. 9, 2012.

[5] US Treasury website "History of the Treasury"

[6] Treasurers of the United States

[7] "President Donald J. Trump Announces Key Additions to his Administration" Archived 2017-05-17 at the Wayback Machine , The White House, April 28, 2017. Retrieved 2017-04-28.

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Treasurer of the United States

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Treasurer of the United States
Incumbent Vacant since January 14, 2020
Appointer	The President
Formation	September 6, 1777