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United States Secretary of the Treasury
👁 Image Seal of the Department of the Treasury
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👁 Image Incumbent Scott Bessent since January 28, 2025
Department of the Treasury
Style	Mr. Secretary (informal) The Honorable (formal)
Member of	Cabinet National Security Council
Reports to	President of the United States
Seat	Treasury Building Washington, D.C.
Appointer	The president with Senate advice and consent
Term length	No fixed term
Constituting instrument	31 U.S.C. § 301
Precursor	Superintendent of Finance
Formation	September 11, 1789; 236 years ago (1789-09-11)
First holder	Alexander Hamilton
Succession	Fifth^[1]
Deputy	Deputy Secretary^[2]
Salary	Executive Schedule, Level I^[3]
Website	treasury.gov

The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all matters pertaining to economic and fiscal policy. The secretary is, by custom, a member of the president's cabinet and, by law, a member of the National Security Council,^[4] and fifth in the U.S. presidential line of succession.

Under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution, the officeholder is nominated by the president of the United States, and, following a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Finance, will take the office if confirmed by the majority of the full United States Senate.

The secretary of state, the secretary of the treasury, the secretary of defense, and the attorney general are generally regarded as the four most important Cabinet officials, due to the size and importance of their respective departments.^[5] The current secretary of the treasury has been Scott Bessent since January 28, 2025.

Powers and functions

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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. As 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.

— U.S. Department of the Treasury Web site^[6]

The secretary along with the treasurer of the United States must sign Federal Reserve notes before they can become legal tender.^[7] The secretary also manages the United States Emergency Economic Stabilization fund.^[8]

Salary

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The secretary of the treasury is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule,^[3] thus earning the salary prescribed for that level ($250,600 as of January 2024).^[9]

List of secretaries of the treasury

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Parties

Federalist (4) Democratic-Republican (4) Democratic (30) Whig (5) Republican (35) Independent (1)

Status

Denotes an acting secretary of the treasury

No.	Portrait	Name	State of residence	Took office	Left office	President(s)
1	👁 Image	Alexander Hamilton	New York	September 11, 1789	January 31, 1795	George Washington (1789–1797)
2	👁 Image	Oliver Wolcott Jr.	Connecticut	February 3, 1795	December 31, 1800	George Washington (1789–1797)
2	👁 Image	Oliver Wolcott Jr.	Connecticut	February 3, 1795	December 31, 1800	John Adams (1797–1801)
3	👁 Image	Samuel Dexter	Massachusetts	January 1, 1801	May 13, 1801	John Adams (1797–1801)
3	👁 Image	Samuel Dexter	Massachusetts	January 1, 1801	May 13, 1801	Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
4	👁 Image	Albert Gallatin	Pennsylvania	May 14, 1801	February 8, 1814	James Madison (1809–1817)
4	👁 Image	Albert Gallatin	Pennsylvania	May 14, 1801	February 8, 1814		5	👁 Image	George W. Campbell	Tennessee	February 9, 1814	October 5, 1814
6	👁 Image	Alexander Dallas	Pennsylvania	October 6, 1814	October 21, 1816
–	👁 Image	William Jones Acting^[a]	Pennsylvania	October 21, 1816	October 22, 1816
7	👁 Image	William H. Crawford	Georgia	October 22, 1816	March 6, 1825
7	👁 Image	William H. Crawford	Georgia	October 22, 1816	March 6, 1825		James Monroe (1817–1825)
8	👁 Image	Richard Rush	Pennsylvania	March 7, 1825	March 5, 1829	John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
9	👁 Image	Samuel D. Ingham	Pennsylvania	March 6, 1829	June 20, 1831	Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
10	👁 Image	Louis McLane	Delaware	August 8, 1831	May 28, 1833
11	👁 Image	William J. Duane	Pennsylvania	May 29, 1833	September 22, 1833
12	👁 Image	Roger B. Taney	Maryland	September 23, 1833	June 25, 1834
13	👁 Image	Levi Woodbury	New Hampshire	July 1, 1834	March 3, 1841
13	👁 Image	Levi Woodbury	New Hampshire	July 1, 1834	March 3, 1841	Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)
14	👁 Image	Thomas Ewing	Ohio	March 4, 1841	September 11, 1841	William Henry Harrison (1841)
14	👁 Image	Thomas Ewing	Ohio	March 4, 1841	September 11, 1841	John Tyler (1841–1845)
15	👁 Image	Walter Forward	Pennsylvania	September 13, 1841	March 1, 1843
16	👁 Image	John Canfield Spencer	New York	March 8, 1843	May 2, 1844
17	👁 Image	George M. Bibb	Kentucky	July 4, 1844	March 7, 1845
18	👁 Image	Robert J. Walker	Mississippi	March 8, 1845	March 5, 1849	James K. Polk (1845–1849)
19	👁 Image	William M. Meredith	Pennsylvania	March 8, 1849	July 22, 1850	Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
20	👁 Image	Thomas Corwin	Ohio	July 23, 1850	March 6, 1853	Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
21	👁 Image	James Guthrie	Kentucky	March 7, 1853	March 6, 1857	Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)
22	👁 Image	Howell Cobb	Georgia	March 7, 1857	December 8, 1860	James Buchanan (1857–1861)
23	👁 Image	Philip Francis Thomas	Maryland	December 12, 1860	January 14, 1861
24	👁 Image	John Adams Dix	New York	January 15, 1861	March 6, 1861
25	👁 Image	Salmon P. Chase	Ohio	March 7, 1861	June 30, 1864	Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)
26	👁 Image	William P. Fessenden	Maine	July 5, 1864	March 3, 1865
27	👁 Image	Hugh McCulloch	Indiana	March 9, 1865	March 3, 1869
27	👁 Image	Hugh McCulloch	Indiana	March 9, 1865	March 3, 1869	Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)
28	👁 Image	George S. Boutwell	Massachusetts	March 12, 1869	March 16, 1873	Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
29	👁 Image	William Adams Richardson	Massachusetts	March 17, 1873	June 3, 1874
30	👁 Image	Benjamin Bristow	Kentucky	June 4, 1874	June 20, 1876
31	👁 Image	Lot M. Morrill	Maine	July 7, 1876	March 9, 1877
32	👁 Image	John Sherman	Ohio	March 10, 1877	March 3, 1881	Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
33	👁 Image	William Windom	Minnesota	March 8, 1881	November 13, 1881	James A. Garfield (1881)
33	👁 Image	William Windom	Minnesota	March 8, 1881	November 13, 1881	Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)
34	👁 Image	Charles J. Folger	New York	November 14, 1881	September 4, 1884
35	👁 Image	Walter Q. Gresham	Indiana	September 5, 1884	October 30, 1884
36	👁 Image	Hugh McCulloch	Indiana	October 31, 1884	March 7, 1885
37	👁 Image	Daniel Manning	New York	March 8, 1885	March 31, 1887	Grover Cleveland (1885–1889)
38	👁 Image	Charles S. Fairchild	New York	April 1, 1887	March 6, 1889	Grover Cleveland (1885–1889)
39	👁 Image	William Windom	Minnesota	March 7, 1889	January 29, 1891	Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
40	👁 Image	Charles Foster	Ohio	February 25, 1891	March 6, 1893	Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
41	👁 Image	John G. Carlisle	Kentucky	March 7, 1893	March 5, 1897	Grover Cleveland (1893–1897)
42	👁 Image	Lyman J. Gage	Illinois	March 6, 1897	January 31, 1902	William McKinley (1897–1901)
42	👁 Image	Lyman J. Gage	Illinois	March 6, 1897	January 31, 1902	Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
43	👁 Image	L. M. Shaw	Iowa	February 1, 1902	March 3, 1907
44	👁 Image	George B. Cortelyou	New York	March 4, 1907	March 7, 1909
45	👁 Image	Franklin MacVeagh	Illinois	March 8, 1909	March 5, 1913	William Howard Taft (1909–1913)
46	👁 Image	William Gibbs McAdoo	New York	March 6, 1913	December 15, 1918	Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
47	👁 Image	Carter Glass	Virginia	December 16, 1918	February 1, 1920
48	👁 Image	David F. Houston	Missouri	February 2, 1920	March 3, 1921
49	👁 Image	Andrew Mellon	Pennsylvania	March 4, 1921	February 12, 1932	Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
						Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
						Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
50	👁 Image	Ogden L. Mills	New York	February 13, 1932	March 4, 1933	Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
51	👁 Image	William H. Woodin	New York	March 5, 1933	December 31, 1933	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
52	👁 Image	Henry Morgenthau Jr.	New York	January 1, 1934	July 22, 1945	Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
53	👁 Image	Fred M. Vinson	Kentucky	July 23, 1945	June 23, 1946	Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
54	👁 Image	John Wesley Snyder	Missouri	June 25, 1946	January 20, 1953	Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
55	👁 Image	George M. Humphrey	Ohio	January 21, 1953	July 29, 1957	Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
56	👁 Image	Robert Anderson	Connecticut	July 29, 1957	January 20, 1961	Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
57	👁 Image	C. Douglas Dillon	New Jersey	January 21, 1961	April 1, 1965	John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
57	👁 Image	C. Douglas Dillon	New Jersey	January 21, 1961	April 1, 1965	Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
58	👁 Image	Henry H. Fowler	Virginia	April 1, 1965	December 20, 1968
59	👁 Image	Joseph W. Barr	Indiana	December 21, 1968	January 20, 1969
60	👁 Image	David Kennedy	Utah	January 22, 1969	February 10, 1971	Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
61	👁 Image	John Connally	Texas	February 11, 1971	June 12, 1972
62	👁 Image	George Shultz	Illinois	June 12, 1972	May 8, 1974
63	👁 Image	William E. Simon	New Jersey	May 8, 1974	January 20, 1977
63	👁 Image	William E. Simon	New Jersey	May 8, 1974	January 20, 1977	Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
64	👁 Image	W. Michael Blumenthal	Michigan	January 23, 1977	August 4, 1979	Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
65	👁 Image	G. William Miller	Rhode Island	August 7, 1979	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
66	👁 Image	Donald Regan	New Jersey	January 22, 1981	February 1, 1985	Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
67	👁 Image	James Baker	Texas	February 4, 1985	August 17, 1988
–	👁 Image	M. Peter McPherson Acting^[b]	Michigan	August 17, 1988	September 15, 1988
68	👁 Image	Nicholas F. Brady	New Jersey	September 15, 1988	January 17, 1993
68	👁 Image	Nicholas F. Brady	New Jersey	September 15, 1988	January 17, 1993	George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
69	👁 Image	Lloyd Bentsen	Texas	January 20, 1993	December 22, 1994	Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
–	👁 Image	Frank N. Newman Acting^[b]	Massachusetts	December 22, 1994	January 11, 1995
70	👁 Image	Robert Rubin	New York	January 11, 1995	July 2, 1999
71	👁 Image	Lawrence Summers	Maryland	July 2, 1999	January 20, 2001
72	👁 Image	Paul H. O'Neill	Pennsylvania	January 20, 2001	December 31, 2002	George W. Bush (2001–2009)
–	👁 Image	Kenneth W. Dam Acting^[b]	Illinois	December 31, 2002	February 3, 2003
73	👁 Image	John W. Snow	Virginia	February 3, 2003	June 30, 2006
–	👁 Image	Robert M. Kimmitt Acting^[b]	Virginia	June 30, 2006	July 10, 2006
74	👁 Image	Henry Paulson	Illinois	July 10, 2006	January 20, 2009
–	👁 Image	Stuart A. Levey Acting^[c]	Ohio	January 20, 2009	January 26, 2009	Barack Obama (2009–2017)
75	👁 Image	Timothy Geithner	New York	January 26, 2009	January 25, 2013
–	👁 Image	Neal S. Wolin Acting^[b]	Illinois	January 25, 2013	February 28, 2013
76	👁 Image	Jack Lew	New York	February 28, 2013	January 20, 2017
–	👁 Image	Adam Szubin Acting^[c]	Washington, D.C.	January 20, 2017	February 13, 2017	Donald Trump (2017–2021)
77	👁 Image	Steven Mnuchin	California	February 13, 2017	January 20, 2021	Donald Trump (2017–2021)
–	👁 Image	Andy Baukol Acting^[d]	Virginia	January 20, 2021	January 26, 2021	Joe Biden (2021–2025)
78	👁 Image	Janet Yellen	California	January 26, 2021	January 20, 2025	Joe Biden (2021–2025)
–	👁 Image	David Lebryk Acting^[e]	Indiana	January 20, 2025	January 28, 2025	Donald Trump (2025–present)
79	👁 Image	Scott Bessent	South Carolina	January 28, 2025	Incumbent	Donald Trump (2025–present)

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Former flag of the secretary of the treasury, originating from the 19th century.

Succession

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Presidential succession

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The secretary of the treasury is fifth in the presidential line of succession, following the secretary of state and preceding the secretary of defense.^[1]

Succession within the department

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On August 16, 2016, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13735, which changed the order of succession for filling the treasury secretary's role when necessary. At any time when the secretary and the deputy secretary of the treasury have both died, resigned, or cannot serve as secretary for other reasons, the order designates which treasury officers are next in line to serve as acting secretary.

The order of succession is:^[10]


#	Office
1*	Under secretaries of the treasury
2	General Counsel of the Department of the Treasury
3*	Deputy under secretaries of the treasury and those assistant secretaries of the treasury appointed by the president by and with the consent of the Senate
4	Chief of Staff
5	Assistant Secretary for Management
6	Fiscal Assistant Secretary
7	Commissioner of Internal Revenue, Internal Revenue Service
8	Commissioner, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
9	Deputy Commissioner, Fiscal Accounting and Shared Services, Bureau of the Fiscal Service
10	Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, Internal Revenue Service

*In the order in which they shall have taken the oath of office as such officers.

Notes

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^ As Secretary of the Navy.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e As Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
^ ^a ^b As Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
^ As Deputy Assistant Secretary for Monetary Policy.
^ As Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.

References

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^ ^a ^b "3 U.S. Code § 19 – Vacancy in offices of both President and Vice President; officers eligible to act". LII / Legal Information Institute. Archived from the original on December 26, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2017.
^ 31 U.S.C. § 301
^ ^a ^b 5 U.S.C. § 5312
^ 50 U.S.C. §§ 3021–Security Council National Security Council
^ Cabinets and Counselors: The President and the Executive Branch (1997). Congressional Quarterly. p. 87.
^ "Duties & Functions: Secretaries of the Treasury". United States Department of the Treasury. Archived from the original on November 19, 2010. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
^ Rappeport, Alan (December 8, 2022). "Yellen Is First Female Treasury Secretary With Signature on U.S. Dollar". The New York Times. Archived from the original on December 9, 2022. Retrieved December 9, 2022. By tradition, the treasurer must sign the money along with the Treasury secretary. Both signatures are engraved onto plates at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, where they are printed and submitted to the Federal Reserve, which determines what currency will be added to circulation.
^ 12 U.S.C. § 5211: Purchases of troubled assets
^ "Salary Table No. 2021-EX Rates of Basic Pay for the Executive Schedule (EX)" (PDF).
^ "Executive Order on Providing an Order of Succession within the Department of the Treasury". August 16, 2016. Archived from the original on September 25, 2021. Retrieved January 9, 2022. 👁 Public Domain
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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