United States Secretary of the Treasury

The United States Secretary of the Treasury is the head of the Department of the Treasury. The current Secretary of the Treasury is Steven Mnuchin, who serves under Republican President Donald Trump.

The Secretary of the Treasury is a member of the President's United States Cabinet. Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary, selected by President George Washington in 1789.

## Duties[edit]

> 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.[1]

In order for Federal Reserve notes (e.g. paper money) to become legal tender they must be signed by both the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasurer.

## List of Secretaries of the Treasury[edit]

Name  |  Years

|

Alexander Hamilton |  1789–1793
Oliver Wolcott  |  1795–1800
Samuel Dexter  |  1801
Albert Gallatin |  1801–1814
George Campbell  |  1814
Alexander Dallas  |  1814–1816
William Crawford  |  1816–1825
Richard Rush  |  1825–1829
Samuel Ingham  |  1829–1831
Louis McLane  |  1831–1833
William Duane  |  1833
Roge Taney  |  1833–1834
Levi Woodbury  |  1834–1841
Thomas Ewing  |  1841
Walter Forward  |  1841–1843
John Spencer  |  1843–1844
George Bibb  |  1844–1845
Robert Walker  |  1845–1849
William Meredith  |  1849–1850
Thomas Corwin  |  1850–1853
James Guthrie  |  1853–1857
Howell Cobb |  1857–1860
Philip Thomas  |  1860–1861
John Dix  |  1861
Salmon P. Chase |  1861–1864
William Fessenden  |  1864–1865
Hugh McCulloch  |  1865–1869, 1884–1885
George Boutwell  |  1869–1873
William Richardson  |  1873–1874
Benjamin Bristow  |  1874–1876
Lot Morrill  |  1876–1877
John Sherman  |  1877–1881
William Windom  |  1881, 1889–1891
Charles Folger  |  1881–1884
Walter Gresham  |  1884
Daniel Manning  |  1885–1887
Charles Fairchild  |  1887–1889
Charles Foster  |  1891–1893
John Carlisle  |  1893–1897
Lyman Gage  |  1897–1902
Leslie Shaw  |  1902–1907
George Cortelyou  |  1907–1909
Franklin MacVeigh  |  1909–1913
William McAdoo  |  1913–1918
Carter Glass |  1918–1920
David Houston  |  1920–1921
Andrew Mellon |  1921–1932
Ogden Mills  |  1932–1933
William Woodin  |  1933
Heny Morgenthau  |  1934–1945
Fred Vinson |  1945–1946
John Snyder  |  1946–1953
George Humphrey  |  1953–1957
Robert Anderson  |  1957–1961
C. Douglas Dillon  |  1961–1965
Henry Fowler  |  1965–1968
Joseph Barr  |  1968–1969
David Kennedy  |  1969–1971
John Connally  |  1971–1972
George P. Shultz  |  1972–1974
William Simon  |  1974–1977
W. Michael Blumenthal  |  1977–1979
G. William Miller  |  1979–1981
Donald Regan  |  1981–1985
James Baker  |  1985–1988
Nicholas Brady  |  1988–1993
Lloyd Bentsen |  1993–1994
Robert E. Rubin  |  1995–1999
Lawrence Summers |  1999–2001
Paul O'Neill  |  2001–2002
John Snow  |  2003–2006
Henry M. Paulson |  2006–2009
Timothy Geithner |  2009–2013
Jack Lew  |  2013–2017
Steven Mnuchin | 2017–

## References[edit]

1. ↑ Duties & Functions