Treasurer of the United States

The treasurer of the United States is an officer in the United States Department of the Treasury who serves as the custodian and trustee of the federal government's collateral assets and the supervisor of the department's currency and coinage production functions. On March 23, 2025, Donald Trump named Georgia state senator Brandon Beach—breaking a 76-year streak of women holding the position—to be the next treasurer. He was formally appointed on May 28, 2025.

Responsibilities

By law, the treasurer is the depositary officer of the United States with regard to deposits of gold, special drawing rights, and financial gifts to the Library of Congress. The treasurer also directly oversees the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) and the United States Mint, which respectively print and mint U.S. currency and coinage. In connection to the influence of federal monetary policy on currency and coinage production, the treasurer liaises on a regular basis with the Federal Reserve.

The duty perhaps most widely associated with the treasurer of the United States is affixing a facsimile signature to all Federal Reserve Notes. Federal law requires both the treasurer's signature and the treasury secretary's countersignature for Federal Reserve notes to be considered legal tender.

Moreover, the treasurer serves as a senior advisor and representative of the Treasury Department on behalf of the secretary in the areas of community development and public engagement. The treasurer was originally charged with the receipt and custody of all government funds independent of the treasury secretary, not unlike today's elected state treasurers. Beginning in 1939, the Office of the Treasurer and its cash management activities were brought under the direction of a broader Fiscal Service, one that also coordinated governmentwide accounting and debt management. Later in 1974, the cash management function in its entirety was transferred from the treasurer to what is now known as the Bureau of the Fiscal Service as a cost-saving measure. Responsibility for oversight of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) and the United States Mint was later assigned to the treasurer in 1981.

More recently, the requirement of the United States Senate confirmation for the appointment was dropped in August 2012.

Since the appointment of Georgia Neese Clark Gray in 1949, the non-continuous total length of time the office has been vacant is more than 4,750 days, or thirteen years, while in the 170+ years prior to that, such time totaled less than a year.

Female officeholders

Between 1949 and 2025, 17 women held the position of the office of treasurer. Georgia Neese Clark Gray became treasurer on June 21, 1949, making her the first woman to hold the office. Until Trump's appointment of Brandon Beach to the position in 2025, all subsequent treasurers were women, Marilynn Malerba, of the Mohegan, became the first Native American treasurer in 2022.

List of treasurers

The following persons served as treasurers of the United States:

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! Name

! Term of office

! President(s) served under

! rowspan="2" | 1

| 100px 100px Michael Hillegas

| July 29, 1775 – September 11, 1789 ()

| George Washington (also served under Confederation Congress)

| colspan="4" | Hillegas served jointly with George Clymer until August 6, 1776. The title of the office was "Treasurer of the United Colonies" until May 14, 1777.

! 2

| Samuel Meredith

| September 11, 1789 – December 1, 1801 ()

| George Washington John Adams Thomas Jefferson

! 3

| 100px Thomas T. Tucker

| December 1, 1801 – May 2, 1828 () (served the longest term)

| Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 4

| 100px William Clark

| June 4, 1828 – May 26, 1829 ()

| John Quincy Adams Andrew Jackson

! 5

| John Campbell

| May 26, 1829 – July 20, 1839 ()

| Andrew Jackson Martin Van Buren

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 6

| William Selden

| July 22, 1839 – November 23, 1850 () (served under the most presidents)

| Martin Van Buren William Henry Harrison John Tyler James K. Polk Zachary Taylor Millard Fillmore

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 7

| 100px John Sloane

| November 27, 1850 – April 1, 1853 ()

| Millard Fillmore Franklin Pierce

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 8

| Samuel L. Casey

| April 4, 1853 – December 22, 1859 ()

| Franklin Pierce James Buchanan

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 9

| 100px William C. Price

| February 28, 1860 – March 21, 1861 ()

| James Buchanan Abraham Lincoln

! 10

| 100px 100px Francis E. Spinner

| March 16, 1861 – July 30, 1875 ()

| Abraham Lincoln Andrew Johnson Ulysses S. Grant

! 11

| 100px 100px John C. New

| June 30, 1875 – July 1, 1876 ()

| Ulysses S. Grant

! 12

| 100px 100px A. U. Wyman

| July 1, 1876 – June 30, 1877 ()

| Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes

! 13

| 100px 100px James Gilfillan

| July 1, 1877 – March 31, 1883 ()

| Rutherford B. Hayes James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur

! 14

| 100px 100px A. U. Wyman

| April 1, 1883 – April 30, 1885 ()

| Chester A. Arthur Grover Cleveland

! 15

| 100px Conrad N. Jordan

| May 1, 1885 – March 23, 1887 ()

| Grover Cleveland

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 16

| 100px 100px James W. Hyatt

| May 24, 1887 – May 10, 1889 ()

| Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison

! 17

| 100px 100px James N. Huston

| May 11, 1889 – April 24, 1891 ()

| Benjamin Harrison

! 18

| 100px 100px Enos H. Nebeker

| April 25, 1891 – May 31, 1893 ()

| Benjamin Harrison Grover Cleveland

! 19

| 100px 100px Daniel N. Morgan

| June 1, 1893 – June 30, 1897 ()

| Grover Cleveland William McKinley

! 20

| 100px 100px Ellis H. Roberts

| July 1, 1897 – June 30, 1905 ()

| William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt

! 21

| 100px 100px Charles H. Treat

| July 1, 1905 – October 30, 1909 ()

| Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft

! 22

| 100px 100px Lee McClung

| November 1, 1909 – November 21, 1912 ()

| William Howard Taft

! 23

| 100px 100px Carmi A. Thompson

| November 22, 1912 – March 31, 1913 () (served the shortest term)

| William Howard Taft Woodrow Wilson

! 24

| 100px 100px John Burke

| April 1, 1913 – January 5, 1921 ()

| Woodrow Wilson

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 25

| 100px 100px Frank White

| May 2, 1921 – May 1, 1928 ()

| Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 26

| 100px 100px Harold Theodore Tate

| May 31, 1928 – January 17, 1929 ()

| Calvin Coolidge

! 27

| 100px W. O. Woods

| January 18, 1929 – May 31, 1933 ()

| Calvin Coolidge Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt

! 28

| 100px 100px William Alexander Julian

| June 1, 1933 – May 29, 1949 ()

| Franklin D. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 29

| 100px 100px Georgia Neese Clark

| June 21, 1949 – January 27, 1953 ()

| Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower

! 30

|100px 100px Ivy Baker Priest

| January 28, 1953 – January 29, 1961 ()

| Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Kennedy

! 31

| 100px 100px Elizabeth Rudel Smith

| January 30, 1961 – April 13, 1962 ()

| John F. Kennedy

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 32

| 100px 100px Kathryn O'Hay Granahan

| January 3, 1963 – November 22, 1966 ()

| John F. Kennedy Lyndon B. Johnson

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 33

| 100px 100px Dorothy Andrews Elston Kabis

| May 8, 1969 – July 3, 1971 ()

| Richard Nixon

| colspan="45" | vacant

! 34

| 100px 100px Romana Acosta Bañuelos

| December 17, 1971 – February 14, 1974 ()

| Richard Nixon

| colspan="4" | vacant

! 35

| 100px Francine Irving Neff

| June 21, 1974 – January 19, 1977 ()

| Richard Nixon Gerald Ford

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 36

| 100px 100px Azie Taylor Morton

| September 12, 1977 – January 20, 1981 ()

| Jimmy Carter

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 37

| 100px Angela Marie Buchanan

| March 17, 1981 – July 5, 1983 ()

| Ronald Reagan

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 38

| 100px 100px Katherine D. Ortega

| September 22, 1983 – July 1, 1989 ()

| Ronald Reagan George H. W. Bush

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 39

| 100px Catalina Vasquez Villalpando

| December 11, 1989 – January 20, 1993 ()

| George H. W. Bush

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 40

| 100px 100px Mary Ellen Withrow

| March 1, 1994 – January 20, 2001 ()

| Bill Clinton

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 41

| 100px 100px Rosario Marin

| August 16, 2001 – June 30, 2003 ()

| George W. Bush

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 42

| 100px 100px Anna Escobedo Cabral

| January 19, 2005 – January 20, 2009 ()

| George W. Bush

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 43

| 100px 100px Rosa Gumataotao Rios

| August 6, 2009 – July 11, 2016 ()

| Barack Obama

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 44

| 100px 100px Jovita Carranza

| June 19, 2017 – January 14, 2020 ()

| Donald Trump

| colspan="5" | vacant

! 45

|| 100px Marilynn Malerba

| September 12, 2022 – November 15, 2024 ()

| Joe Biden

|- bgcolor="#e6e6aa"

! –

|| 100px Patricia Collins (acting)

| November 16, 2024 – May 28, 2025 ()

| Donald Trump

! 46

|| 100px Brandon Beach

| May 28, 2025 – Present ()

| Donald Trump

Treasurer of the United States

Responsibilities

Female officeholders

List of treasurers

See also

References

External links