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.

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 F. 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 M. 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

Acting Secretaries of the Treasury

• Because of the resignation of Deputy Secretary of Treasury Roger Altman resigned 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.

• Deputy Secretary of Treasury Kenneth W Dam served as Acting Secretary of Treasury from December 31, 2002 to February 3, 2003.

External link

• U.S Department of the Treasury Complete list http://www.ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/index.html