United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury is a Cabinet member charged with developing fiscal policy for the United States of America and overseeing the Department of the Treasury. The position was established in 1789, giving it the distinction of being one of the two oldest Cabinet positions.[1] The first and most influential secretary was Alexander Hamilton (1789-1794), who established the new nation's finances on a sound bases, and to provide political support created the world's first voter-based political party, the Federalist Party, using the Treasury's national network of supporters.
In most countries this position is generally known as the Minister of Finance; Britain calls it the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary is fifth in the line of succession to the Presidency. The current Secretary is Henry Paulson.
Secretaries of the Treasury
Below is a list of the Secretaries of the Treasury along with their dates of service, and the President(s) they served under[2]:
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| Alexander Hamilton New York |
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| Oliver Wolcott Jr. Connecticut |
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| Samuel Dexter Massachusetts |
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| Albert Gallatin Pennsylvania |
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| George W. Campbell Tennessee |
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| Alexander J. Dallas Pennsylvania |
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| William H. Crawford Georgia |
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Richard Rush, Pennsylvania
Mar. 7, 1825 - Mar. 3, 1829 John Quincy Adams
Samuel D. Ingham, Pennsylvania
Mar. 6, 1829 - Jun. 20, 1831 Andrew Jackson
Louis McLane, Delaware
Aug. 8, 1831 - May 29, 1833 Jackson
William J. Duane, Pennsylvania
May 29, 1833 - Sep. 23, 1833 Jackson
Roger B. Taney, Maryland
Sep. 23, 1833 - Jun. 24, 1834 Jackson
Levi Woodbury, New Hampshire
Jul. 1, 1834 - Mar. 3, 1837 Jackson Mar. 4, 1837 - Mar. 3, 1841 Martin Van Buren
Thomas Ewing, Ohio
Mar. 5, 1841 - Apr. 4, 1841 William Henry Harrison Apr. 5, 1841 - Sep. 11, 1841 John Tyler
Walter Forward, Pennsylvania
Sep. 13, 1841 - Mar. 1, 1843 Tyler
John C. Spencer, New York
Mar. 8, 1843 - May 2, 1844 Tyler
George M. Bibb, Kentucky
Jul. 4, 1844 - Mar. 3, 1845 Tyler Mar. 4, 1845 - Mar. 7, 1845 James Knox Polk
Robert J. Walker, Mississippi
Mar. 8, 1845 - Mar. 3, 1849 Polk Mar. 4, 1849 - Mar. 5, 1849 Zachary Taylor
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William M. Meredith, Pennsylvania
Mar. 8, 1849 - Jul. 9, 1850 Taylor Jul. 10, 1850 - Jul. 22, 1850 Millard Fillmore
Thomas Corwin, Ohio
Jul. 23, 1850 - Mar. 3, 1853 Fillmore Mar 4, 1853 - Mar. 6, 1853 Franklin Pierce
James Guthrie, Kentucky
Mar. 7, 1853 - Mar. 3, 1857 Pierce Mar. 4, 1857 - Mar. 6, 1857 James Buchanan
Howell Cobb, Georgia
Mar. 7, 1857 - Dec. 8, 1860 Buchanan
Philip F. Thomas, Maryland
Dec. 12, 1860 - Jan. 14, 1861 Buchanan
John A. Dix, New York
Jan. 15, 1861 - Mar. 3, 1861 Buchanan Mar. 4, 1861 - Mar. 6, 1861 Abraham Lincoln
Salmon P. Chase, Ohio
Mar. 7, 1861 - Jun. 30, 1864 Lincoln
William P. Fessenden, Maine
Jul. 5, 1864 - Mar. 3, 1865 Lincoln
Hugh McCulloch, Indiana
Mar. 9, 1865 - Apr. 15, 1865 Lincoln Apr. 15, 1865 - Mar. 3, 1869 Andrew Johnson
George S. Boutwell, Massachusetts
Mar. 12, 1869 - Mar. 16, 1873 Ulysses Simpson Grant
William A. Richardson, Massachusetts
Mar. 17, 1873 - Jun. 3, 1874 Grant
Benjamin H. Bristow, Kentucky
Jun. 4, 1874 - Jun. 20, 1876 Grant
Lot M. Morrill, Maine
Jul. 7, 1876 - Mar. 3, 1877 Grant Mar. 4, 1877 - Mar. 9, 1877 Rutherford Birchard Hayes
John Sherman, Ohio
Mar. 10, 1877 - Mar. 3, 1881 Hayes
William Windom, Minnesota
Mar. 8, 1881 - Sep. 19, 1881 James Abram Garfield Sep. 20, 1881 - Nov. 13, 1881 Chester Alan Arthur
Charles J. Folger, New York
Nov. 14, 1881 - Sep. 4, 1884 Arthur
Walter Q. Gresham, Indiana
Sep. 25, 1884 - Oct. 30, 1884 Arthur
Hugh McCulloch, Indiana
Oct. 31, 1884 - Mar. 3, 1885 Arthur Mar. 4, 1885 - Mar. 7, 1885 Grover Cleveland
Daniel Manning, New York
Mar. 8, 1885 - Mar. 31, 1887 Cleveland
Charles S. Fairchild, New York
Apr. 1, 1887 - Mar. 3, 1889 Cleveland Mar. 4, 1889 - Mar. 6, 1889 Benjamin Harrison
William Windom, Minnesota
Mar. 7, 1889 - Jan. 29, 1891 B. Harrison
Charles Foster, Ohio
Feb. 25, 1891 - Mar. 3, 1893 B. Harrison Mar. 4, 1893 - Mar. 6, 1893 Cleveland
John G. Carlisle, Kentucky
Mar. 7, 1893 - Mar. 3, 1897 Cleveland Mar. 4, 1897 - Mar. 5, 1897 William McKinley
Lyman J. Gage, Illinois
Mar. 6, 1897 - Sep. 14, 1901 McKinley Sep. 14, 1901 - Jan. 31, 1902 Theodore Roosevelt
Leslie M. Shaw, Iowa
Feb. 1, 1902 - Mar. 3, 1907 T. Roosevelt
George B. Cortelyou, New York
Mar. 4, 1907 - Mar. 3, 1909 T. Roosevelt Mar. 4, 1909 - Mar. 7, 1909 William Howard Taft
Franklin MacVeagh, Illinois
Mar. 8, 1909 - Mar. 3, 1913 Taft Mar. 4, 1913 - Mar. 5, 1913 Woodrow Wilson
William G. McAdoo, New York
Mar. 6, 1913 - Dec. 15, 1918 Wilson
Carter Glass, Virginia
Dec. 16, 1918 - Feb. 1, 1920 Wilson
David F. Houston, Missouri
Feb. 2, 1920 - Mar. 3, 1921 Wilson
Andrew W. Mellon, Pennsylvania
Mar. 4, 1921 - Aug. 2, 1923 Warren Gamaliel Harding Aug. 3, 1923 - Mar. 3, 1929 Calvin Coolidge Mar. 4, 1929 - Feb. 12, 1932 Herbert Clark Hoover
Ogden L. Mills, New York
Feb. 13, 1932- Mar. 3, 1933 Hoover
William H. Woodin, New York
Mar. 4, 1933 - Dec. 31, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., New York
Jan. 1, 1934 - Apr. 12, 1945 F.D. Roosevelt Apr. 12, 1945 - Jul. 22, 1945 Harry S. Truman
Fred M. Vinson, Kentucky
Jul. 23, 1945 - Jun. 23, 1946 Truman
John W. Snyder, Missouri
Jun. 25, 1946 - Jan. 20, 1953 Truman
George M. Humphrey, Ohio
Jan. 21, 1953 - Jul. 29, 1957 Dwight David Eisenhower
Robert B. Anderson, Connecticut
Jul. 29, 1957 - Jan. 20, 1961 Eisenhower
C. Douglas Dillon, New Jersey
Jan. 21, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 Kennedy Nov. 22, 1963 - Apr. 1, 1965 Lyndon Baines Johnson
Henry H. Fowler, Virginia
Apr. 1, 1965 - Dec. 20, 1968 L.B. Johnson
Joseph W. Barr, Indiana
Dec. 21, 1968 - Jan. 20, 1969 L.B. Johnson
David M. Kennedy, Utah
Jan. 22, 1969 - Feb. 11, 1971 Richard Milhous Nixon
John B. Connally, Texas
Feb. 11, 1971 - Jun. 12, 1972 Nixon
George P. Shultz, Illinois
Jun. 12, 1972 - May 8, 1974 Nixon
William E. Simon, New Jersey
May 8, 1974 - Aug. 9, 1974 Nixon Aug 9, 1974 - Jan. 20, 1977 Gerald Rudolph Ford
W. Michael Blumenthal, Michigan
Jan. 23, 1977 - Aug. 4, 1979 James Earl Carter, Jr.
G. William Miller, Rhode Island
Aug. 6, 1979 - Jan. 20, 1981 Carter
Donald T. Regan, New Jersey
Jan. 22, 1981 - Feb. 2, 1985 Ronald Wilson Reagan
James A. Baker, III, Texas
Feb. 3, 1985 - Aug. 17, 1988 Reagan
Nicholas F. Brady, New Jersey
Sep. 16, 1988 - Jan. 20, 1989 Reagan Jan. 20, 1989 - Jan. 17, 1993 George Herbert Walker Bush
Lloyd M. Bentsen, Texas
Jan. 22, 1993 - Dec. 22, 1994 William Jefferson Clinton
Robert E. Rubin, New York
Jan. 10, 1995 - Jul. 2, 1999 Clinton
Lawrence H. Summers, Massachusetts
Jul. 2, 1999 - Jan. 20, 2001 Clinton
Paul H. O'Neill, Pennsylvania
Jan. 30, 2001 - Dec. 31, 2002 George Walker Bush
John W. Snow, Virginia
Feb. 3, 2003 - June 29, 2006 G.W. Bush
Henry M. Paulson, Jr., Illinois
Jul. 10, 2006 - Present G.W. Bush
References
- ↑ DOI history. Department of the Interior. Retrieved on 2007-11-17.
- ↑ http://www.treasury.gov/education/history/secretaries/index.shtml