United States Secretary of the Treasury

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John W. Snow, the current Secretary of the Treasury.

The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the finance minister of the Federal Government of the United States. He or she is head of the United States Department of the Treasury, concerned with finance and monetary matters, and, until 2003, some issues of national security and defense. Most of the Department's law enforcement agencies such as the ATF, Customs Service, and Secret Service were reassigned to other Departments in 2003 in conjunction with the creation of the Department of Homeland Security. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

From the U.S. Department of the Treasury website:

"The Secretary of the Treasury is the principal economic advisor to the President and plays a critical role in policy-making by bringing an economic and government financial policy perspective to issues facing the government. The Secretary is responsible for formulating and recommending domestic and international financial, economic, and tax policy, participating in the formulation of broad fiscal policies that have general significance for the economy, and managing the public debt. The Secretary oversees the activities of the Department in carrying out its major law enforcement responsibilities; in serving as the financial agent for the United States Government; and in manufacturing coins and currency.

"The Chief Financial Officer of the government, the Secretary serves as Chairman Pro Tempore of the President's Economic Policy Council, Chairman of the Boards and Managing Trustee of the Social Security and Medicare Trust Funds, and as U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development."

The Secretary along with the Treasurer must sign Federal Reserve notes before they can become legal tender.

Contents

1 List of Secretaries of the Treasury

2 Acting Secretaries of the Treasury

3 Reference

3.1 External link

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List of Secretaries of the Treasury

**Secretaries of the Treasury**
Name	Term of Office		President(s) served under
Alexander Hamilton	September 11, 1789	January 31, 1795	George Washington
Oliver Wolcott, Jr.	February 3, 1795	December 31, 1800	George Washington, John Adams
Samuel Dexter	January 1, 1801	May 13, 1801	John Adams, Thomas Jefferson
Albert Gallatin	May 14, 1801	February 8, 1814	Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
George W. Campbell	February 9, 1814	October 5, 1814	James Madison
Alexander J. Dallas	October 6, 1814	October 21, 1816	James Madison
William H. Crawford	October 22, 1816	March 6, 1825	James Madison, James Monroe
Richard Rush	March 7, 1825	March 5, 1829	John Quincy Adams
Samuel D. Ingham	March 6, 1829	June 20, 1831	Andrew Jackson
Louis McLane	August 8, 1831	May 28, 1833	Andrew Jackson
William J. Duane	May 29, 1833	September 22, 1833	Andrew Jackson
Roger B. Taney	September 23, 1833	June 25, 1834	Andrew Jackson
Levi Woodbury	July 1, 1834	March 3, 1841	Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren
Thomas Ewing	March 4, 1841	September 11, 1841	William Henry Harrison, John Tyler
Walter Forward	September 13, 1841	March 1, 1843	John Tyler
John C. Spencer	March 8, 1843	May 2, 1844	John Tyler
George M. Bibb	July 4, 1844	March 7, 1845	John Tyler
Robert J. Walker	March 8, 1845	March 5, 1849	James Knox Polk
William M. Meredith	March 8, 1849	July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor
Thomas Corwin	July 23, 1850	March 6, 1853	Millard Fillmore
James Guthrie	March 7, 1853	March 6, 1857	Franklin Pierce
Howell Cobb	March 7, 1857	December 8, 1860	James Buchanan
Philip Thomas	December 12, 1860	January 14, 1861	James Buchanan
John Adams Dix	January 15, 1861	March 6, 1861	James Buchanan
Salmon P. Chase	March 7, 1861	June 30, 1864	Abraham Lincoln
William P. Fessenden	July 5, 1864	March 3, 1865	Abraham Lincoln
Hugh McCulloch	March 9, 1865	March 3, 1869	Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson
George S. Boutwell	March 12, 1869	March 16, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant
William A. Richardson	March 17, 1873	June 3, 1874	Ulysses S. Grant
Benjamin H. Bristow	June 4, 1874	June 20, 1876	Ulysses S. Grant
Lot M. Morrill	July 7, 1876	March 9, 1877	Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes
John Sherman	March 10, 1877	March 3, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes
William Windom	March 8, 1881	November 13, 1881	James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur
Charles J. Folger	November 14, 1881	September 4, 1884	Chester A. Arthur
Walter Q. Gresham	September 5, 1884	October 30, 1884	Chester A. Arthur
Hugh McCulloch	October 31, 1884	March 7, 1885	Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland
Daniel Manning	March 8, 1885	March 31, 1887	Grover Cleveland
Charles S. Fairchild	April 1, 1887	March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland
William Windom	March 7, 1889	January 29, 1891	Benjamin Harrison
Charles Foster	February 25, 1891	March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland
John G. Carlisle	March 7, 1893	March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland, William McKinley
Lyman J. Gage	March 6, 1897	January 31, 1902	William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt
L.M. Shaw	February 1, 1902	March 3, 1907	Theodore Roosevelt
George B. Cortelyou	March 4, 1907	March 7, 1909	Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin MacVeagh	March 8, 1909	March 5, 1913	William Howard Taft
William G. McAdoo	March 6, 1913	December 15, 1918	Woodrow Wilson
Carter Glass	December 16, 1918	February 1, 1920	Woodrow Wilson
David F. Houston	February 2, 1920	March 3, 1921	Woodrow Wilson
Andrew W. Mellon	March 4, 1921	February 12, 1932	Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover
Ogden L. Mills	February 13, 1932	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover
William H. Woodin	March 5, 1933	December 31, 1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt
Henry Morgenthau, Jr.	January 1, 1934	July 22, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman
Fred M. Vinson	July 23, 1945	June 23, 1946	Harry S. Truman
John W. Snyder	June 25, 1946	January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman
George M. Humphrey	January 21, 1953	July 29, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert B. Anderson	July 29, 1957	January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower
C. Douglas Dillon	January 21, 1961	April 1, 1965	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson
Henry H. Fowler	April 1, 1965	December 20, 1968	Lyndon Johnson
Joseph W. Barr	December 21, 1968	January 20, 1969	Lyndon Johnson
David M. Kennedy	January 22, 1969	February 10, 1971	Richard Nixon
John B. Connally	February 11, 1971	June 12, 1972	Richard Nixon
George P. Shultz	June 12, 1972	May 8, 1974	Richard Nixon
William E. Simon	May 8, 1974	January 20, 1977	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
W. Michael Blumenthal	January 23, 1977	August 4, 1979	Jimmy Carter
G. William Miller	August 7, 1979	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Donald T. Regan	January 22, 1981	February 1, 1985	Ronald Reagan
James A. Baker, III	February 4, 1985	August 17, 1988	Ronald Reagan
Nicholas F. Brady	September 15, 1988	January 17, 1993	Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush
Lloyd Bentsen	January 20, 1993	December 22, 1994	Bill Clinton
Robert Rubin	January 11, 1995	July 2, 1999	Bill Clinton
Lawrence H. Summers	July 2, 1999	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Paul H. O'Neill	January 20, 2001	December 31, 2002	George W. Bush
John W. Snow	February 3, 2003	present	George W. Bush

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Acting Secretaries of the Treasury

Because of the resignation of Deputy Secretary of Treasury Roger Altman in August of 1994, Under Secretary of Treasury for Domestic Finance Frank Newman served from December 22, 1994 to January 11, 1995 as Acting Secretary of Treasury.