In 1949, eager to appoint a woman to a prominent political position President Truman appointed Georgia Neese Clark Treasurer. Since then, every subsequent Treasurer has been a woman.
Treasurers of the United States
Name |
Term of Office |
President(s) served under |
Michael Hillegas |
July 29, 1775 - September 11, 1789 |
none |
Samuel Meredith |
September 11, 1789 - 1 December, 1801 |
George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson |
Thomas T. Tucker |
December 1, 1801 - May 2, 1828 |
Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams |
William Clark |
June 4, 1828 - May 31, 1829 |
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson |
John Campbell |
May 26, 1829 - July 20, 1839 |
Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren |
William Selden |
July 22, 1839 - November 23, 1850 |
Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore |
John Sloan |
November 27, 1850 - April 6, 1852 |
Millard Fillmore |
Samuel Casey |
April 4, 1853 - December 22, 1859 |
Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan |
William C. Price |
February 28, 1860 - March 21, 1861 |
Franklin Pierce, Abraham Lincoln |
F.E. Spinner |
March 16, 1861 - July 30, 1875 |
Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant |
John C. New |
June 30, 1875 - July 1, 1876 |
Ulysses S. Grant |
A.U. Wyman |
July 1, 1876 - June 30, 1877 |
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes |
James Gilfillan |
July 1, 1876 - June 30, 1877 |
Rutherford B. Hayes, James A. Garfield, Chester A. Arthur |
Conrad N. Jordan |
May 1, 1885 - March 23, 1887 |
Grover Cleveland |
James W. Hyatt |
May 24, 1887 - May 10, 1889 |
Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison |
J.N. Huston |
May 11, 1889 - April 24, 1891 |
Benjamin Harrison |
Enos H. Nebecker |
April 25, 1891 - May 31, 1893 |
Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland |
D.N. Morgan |
June 1, 1893 - June 30, 1897 |
Grover Cleveland, William McKinley |
Ellis H. Roberts |
July 1, 1897 - June 30, 1905 |
William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt |
Charles H. Treat |
July 1, 1905 - October 30, 1909 |
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft |
Lee McClung |
November 1, 1909 - November 21, 1912 |
William Howard Taft |
Carmi A. Thompson |
November 22, 1912 - March 31, 1913 |
William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson |
John Burke |
April 1, 1913 - January 5, 1921 |
Woodrow Wilson |
Frank White |
May 2, 1921 - May 1, 1928 |
Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge |
H.T. Tate |
May 31, 1928 - January 17, 1929 |
Calvin Coolidge |
W.O. Woods |
January 18, 1929 - May 31, 1933 |
Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
William Alexander Julian |
June 1, 1933 - May 29, 1949 |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman |
Georgia Neese Clark |
June 21, 1949 - January 27, 1953 |
Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Ivy Baker Priest |
January 28, 1953 - January 29, 1961 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy |
Elizabeth Rudel Smith |
January 30, 1961 - April 13, 1962 |
John F. Kennedy |
Kathryn O'Hay Granahan |
January 3, 1963 - November 22, 1966 |
John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson |
Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis |
May 8, 1969 - July 3, 1971 |
Richard Nixon |
Romana Acosta Bañuelos |
December 17, 1971 - February 14, 1974 |
Richard Nixon |
Francine Irving Neff |
June 21, 1974 - January 19, 1977 |
Gerald Ford |
Azie Taylor Morton |
September 12, 1977 - January 20, 1981 |
Jimmy Carter |
Angela Marie Buchanan |
March 17, 1981 - July 5, 1983 |
Ronald Reagan |
Katherine D. Ortega |
September 22, 1983 - July 1, 1989 |
Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush |
Catalina Vasquez Villalpando |
November 20, 1989 - January 20, 1993 |
George H. W. Bush |
Mary Ellen Withrow |
March 1, 1994 - January 20, 2001 |
Bill Clinton |
Rosario Marin |
August 16, 2001 - June 30, 2003 |
George W. Bush |
Anna Escobedo Cabral |
December 13, 2004 - present |
George W. Bush |