List of Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was an office in the United States Department of the Treasury from 1849 until 1961 when it was replaced by the United States Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, one of several positions serving under the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

History The office of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury was created by Act of March 3, 1849. An Act of March 14, 1864 provided for an additional Assistant Secretary, as did an Act of July 11, 1890. An act of October 6, 1917 provided for two additional Assistant Secretaries for duration of the Great War and six months after. An Act of July 22, 1954 also provided for an additional Assistant Secretary.

Former Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury Term Began Term Ended Image Name Secretary(ies) served under President(s) served under March 12, 1849 October 9, 1849 Charles B. Penrose William M. Meredith Zachary Taylor October 10, 1849 November 15, 1850 Allen A. Hall William M. MeredithThomas Corwin Zachary TaylorMillard Fillmore November 16, 1850 March 13, 1853 William L. Hodge Thomas CorwinJames Guthrie Millard FillmoreFranklin Pierce March 14, 1853 March 12, 1857 Peter G. Washington James GuthrieHowell Cobb Franklin PierceJames Buchanan March 13, 1857 January 16, 1861 Philip Clayton Howell CobbPhilip Francis ThomasJohn Adams Dix James Buchanan March 13, 1861 July 11, 1865 George Harrington Salmon P. ChaseWilliam P. FessendenHugh McCulloch Abraham LincolnAndrew Johnson March 18, 1864 June 15, 1865 Maunsell Bradhurst Field Salmon P. ChaseWilliam P. FessendenHugh McCulloch Abraham LincolnAndrew Johnson January 5, 1865 May 4, 1875 William E. Chandler William P. FessendenHugh McCulloch Abraham LincolnAndrew Johnson July 11, 1865 May 4, 1875 John F. Hartley Hugh McCullochGeorge S. BoutwellWilliam Adams RichardsonBenjamin Bristow Andrew JohnsonUlysses S. Grant December 2, 1867 May 31, 1868 Edmund Cooper Hugh McCulloch Andrew Johnson March 20, 1869 March 17, 1873 William A. Richardson George S. Boutwell Ulysses S. Grant March 8, 1873 June 11, 1874 Frederick A. Sawyer William Adams RichardsonBenjamin Bristow July 1, 1874 April 3, 1877 Charles F. Conant Benjamin BristowLot M. MorrillJohn Sherman March 4, 1875 June 30, 1876 Curtis F. Burnham Benjamin Bristow August 12, 1876 March 9, 1885 Henry F. French Lot M. MorrillJohn ShermanWilliam WindomCharles J. FolgerWalter Q. GreshamHugh McCullochDaniel Manning Ulysses S. GrantRutherford B. HayesJames A. GarfieldChester A. ArthurGrover Cleveland April 3, 1877 December 8, 1877 Richard C. McCormick John Sherman Rutherford B. Hayes December 9, 1877 March 31, 1880 John B. Hawley April 10, 1880 December 31, 1881 J. Kendrick Upton John ShermanWilliam WindomCharles J. Folger Rutherford B. HayesJames A. GarfieldChester A. Arthur February 18, 1882 April 16, 1884 John C. New Charles J. Folger Chester A. Arthur April 17, 1884 November 10, 1885 Charles E. Coon Charles J. FolgerWalter Q. GreshamHugh McCulloch Chester A. ArthurGrover Cleveland March 14, 1885 April 1, 1887 Charles S. Fairchild Daniel Manning Grover Cleveland November 10, 1885 June 30, 1886 William E. Smith July 12, 1886 March 12, 1889 Hugh S. Thompson Daniel ManningCharles S. FairchildWilliam Windom Grover ClevelandBenjamin Harrison April 6, 1887 March 11, 1889 Isaac H. Maynard Charles S. FairchildWilliam Windom Grover ClevelandBenjamin Harrison April 1, 1899 July 20, 1890 George Carter Tichenor William Windom Benjamin Harrison April 1, 1889 October 31, 1890 George S. Batcheller July 22, 1890 December 1, 1892 A. B. Nettleton William WindomCharles Foster July 23, 1890 June 30, 1893 Oliver L. Spaulding William WindomCharles FosterJohn G. Carlisle Benjamin HarrisonGrover Cleveland April 27, 1891 October 31, 1892 Lorenzo Crounse Charles Foster Benjamin Harrison November 22, 1892 March 3, 1893 John H. Gear December 23, 1892 April 3, 1893 Genio M. Lambertson Charles FosterJohn G. Carlisle Benjamin HarrisonGrover Cleveland April 12, 1893 April 7, 1897 Charles S. Hamlin John G. CarlisleLyman J. Gage Grover ClevelandWilliam McKinley April 13, 1893 March 31, 1897 William E. Curtis Grover Cleveland>William McKinley July 1, 1893 May 4, 1897 Scott Wike April 7, 1897 March 10, 1899 William B. Howell Lyman J. Gage William McKinley April 7, 1897 March 4, 1903 Oliver L. Spaulding Lyman J. GageL. M. Shaw William McKinleyTheodore Roosevelt June 1, 1897 March 5, 1901 Frank A. Vanderlip Lyman J. Gage William McKinley March 13, 1899 June 3, 1906 Horace A. Taylor Lyman J. GageL. M. Shaw William McKinleyTheodore Roosevelt March 6, 1901 April 15, 1903 Milton E. Ailes March 5, 1903 March 5, 1905 Robert S. Armstrong L. M. Shaw Theodore Roosevelt May 27, 1903 January 21, 1907 Charles H. Keep March 6, 1905 November 1, 1909 James Burton Reynolds L. M. ShawGeorge B. CortelyouFranklin MacVeagh Theodore RooseveltWilliam Howard Taft July 1, 1906 March 15, 1908 John H. Edwards L. M. ShawGeorge B. Cortelyou Theodore Roosevelt January 22, 1907 February 28, 1907 Arthur F. Statter L. M. Shaw April 23, 1907 March 6, 1909 Beekman Winthrop George B. Cortelyou March 17, 1908 April 10, 1909 Louis A. Coolidge George B. CortelyouFranklin MacVeagh Theodore RooseveltWilliam Howard Taft April 5, 1909 June 8, 1910 Charles D. Norton Franklin MacVeagh William Howard Taft April 19, 1909 April 3, 1911 Charles D. Hilles November 27, 1909 July 31, 1913 James Freeman Curtis Franklin MacVeaghWilliam G. McAdoo William Howard TaftWoodrow Wilson June 8, 1910 July 3, 1912 A. Piatt Andrew Franklin MacVeagh William Howard Taft April 4, 1911 March 3, 1913 Robert O. Bailey July 20, 1912 September 30, 1913 Sherman P. Allen Franklin MacVeaghWilliam G. McAdoo William Howard TaftWoodrow Wilson March 24, 1913 February 2, 1914 John Skelton Williams William G. McAdoo Woodrow Wilson August 1, 1913 August 9, 1914 Charles S. Hamlin October 1, 1913 September 30, 1917 Byron R. Newton March 24, 1914 January 26, 1917 William Peabody Malburn August 17, 1914 March 15, 1917 Andrew James Peters April 17, 1917 August 28, 1919 Oscar T. Crosby June 22, 1917 November 20, 1919 Leo S. Rowe William G. McAdooCarter Glass October 5, 1917 August 26, 1921 James H. Moyle William G. McAdooCarter GlassDavid F. HoustonAndrew W. Mellon Woodrow WilsonWarren G. Harding October 30, 1917 July 5, 1920 Russell Leffingwell William G. McAdooCarter GlassDavid F. Houston Woodrow Wilson December 15, 1917 January 31, 1919 Thomas B. Love William G. McAdooCarter Glass September 4, 1918 June 30, 1920 Albert Rathbone William G. McAdooCarter GlassDavid F. Houston March 5, 1919 November 15, 1920 Jouett Shouse Carter GlassDavid F. Houston November 21, 1919 June 14, 1920 Norman H. Davis Carter GlassDavid F. Houston June 15, 1920 April 14, 1921 Nicholas Kelley David F. HoustonAndrew W. Mellon Woodrow WilsonWarren G. Harding July 6, 1920 June 30, 1921 S. Parker Gilbert Jr. December 4, 1920 May 31, 1921 Ewing Laporte December 4, 1920 March 4, 1921 Angus W. McLean David F. Houston Woodrow Wilson March 16, 1921 March 31, 1925 Eliot Wadsworth Andrew W. Mellon Warren G. HardingCalvin Coolidge May 4, 1921 July 9, 1923 Edward C. Clifford Warren G. Harding December 23, 1921 July 25, 1922 Elmer Dover March 3, 1923 June 13, 1926 McKenzie Moss Warren G. HardingCalvin Coolidge July 9, 1923 November 5, 1927 Garrard B. Winston July 1, 1924 November 5, 1927 Charles S. Dewey Calvin Coolidge April 1, 1925 July 31, 1927 Lincoln C. Andrews December 28, 1926 June 25, 1929 Carl T. Schuneman Calvin CoolidgeHerbert Hoover August 1, 1927 March 15, 1929 Seymour Lowman November 7, 1927 September 1, 1929 Henry Herrick Bond June 26, 1929 April 17, 1933 Ferry K. Heath Herbert Hoover November 21, 1929 March 15, 1931 Walter Ewing Hope March 16, 1934 February 12, 1932 Arthur A. Ballantine March 9, 1932 June 11, 1933 James H. Douglas Jr. Ogden L. Mills April 18, 1933 February 15, 1936 Lawrence W. Roberts Jr. William H. WoodinHenry Morgenthau Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt June 6, 1933 September 30, 1939 Stephen B. Gibbons William H. WoodinHenry Morgenthau Jr. June 12, 1933 December 12, 1933 Thomas Hewes William H. Woodin December 1, 1934 November 1, 1937 Josephine Roche Henry Morgenthau Jr. February 19, 1936 February 28, 1939 Wayne Chatfield-Taylor July 1, 1938 October 31, 1938 John Wesley Hanes II June 23, 1939 December 2, 1945 Herbert E. Gaston Henry Morgenthau Jr.Fred M. Vinson Franklin D. RooseveltHarry S. Truman January 18, 1940 November 30, 1944 John L. Sullivan Henry Morgenthau Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt January 24, 1945 May 1, 1946 Harry D. White Henry Morgenthau Jr.Fred M. Vinson Franklin D. RooseveltHarry S. Truman April 15, 1946 July 14, 1948 Edward H. Foley Fred M. VinsonJohn Wesley Snyder Harry S. Truman July 16, 1948 January 20, 1953 John S. Graham John Wesley Snyder February 8, 1949 March 31, 1951 William McChesney Martin Jr. January 24, 1952 February 28, 1957 Andrew N. Overby John Wesley SnyderGeorge M. Humphrey January 28, 1953 August 2, 1955 H. Chapman Rose George M. Humphrey Dwight D. Eisenhower September 20, 1954 January 20, 1961 Laurence B. Robbins George M. HumphreyRobert B. Anderson August 3, 1955 December 15, 1957 David W. Kendall April 18, 1957 August 8, 1957 Fred C. Scribner Jr. December 4, 1957 December 15, 1958 Tom B. Coughran Robert B. Anderson December 16, 1957 A. Gilmore Flues December 17, 1958 December 18, 1960 T. Graydon Upton December 20, 1960 January 20, 1961 John P. Weitzel

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