United States Secretary of the Treasury
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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,[1] 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.[2] 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.
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The secretary along with the treasurer of the United States must sign Federal Reserve notes before they can become legal tender.[4] The secretary also manages the United States Emergency Economic Stabilization fund.[5]
Salary
The secretary of the treasury is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule,5|5312-6|[6] thus earning the salary prescribed for that level ($250,600 as of January 2024).[7]
List of secretaries of the treasury
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.[8]
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, is confirmed by the United States Senate.
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Status
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Denotes an acting secretary of the treasury
| No. | Portrait | Name | State of residence | Took office | Left office | President(s) | |
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />1 | File:Alexander Hamilton, by Trumbull.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1789–1797) |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />2 | File:Oliver Wolcott Jr by Gilbert Stuart circa 1820.jpeg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Connecticut | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1797–1801) | ||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />3 | File:Samuel Dexter.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Massachusetts | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1801–1809) | ||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />4 | File:Albert Gallatin 3.JPG | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1809–1817) | |
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| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />5 | File:George W Campbell cph.3a00320.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Tennessee | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />6 | File:Alexander J. Dallas.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
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| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />7 | File:Portrait of William Harris Crawford.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Georgia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1817–1825) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />8 | File:RUSH, Richard-BEP069-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1825–1829) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />9 | File:SIng.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=5 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1829–1837) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />10 | File:Louis McLane (Treasury Secretary, BEP engraved portrait, cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Delaware | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />11 | File:William J Duane.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />12 | File:Roger Taney.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maryland | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />13 | File:Secretary of the Navy, Levi Woodbury.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Hampshire | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1837–1841) | ||||||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |14 | File:ThomasEwingSr.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1841) |
| rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1841–1845) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |15 | File:WForward-SecofTreas.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |16 | File:SPENCER, John C-Treasury (BEP engraved portrait) (cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />17 | File:George M. Bibb - Brady-Handy.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />18 | File:Hon. Robert J. Walker, Miss - NARA - 528738.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Mississippi | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1845–1849) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |19 | File:WMMeredith.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1849–1850) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |20 | File:TCorwin.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1850–1853) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />21 | File:James-Guthrie-(wreaths).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1853–1857) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />22 | File:Cobb, Howell2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Georgia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1857–1861) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />23 | File:Philip Francis Thomas, sitting.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maryland | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />24 | File:John adams dix.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />25 | File:Mathew Brady, Portrait of Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase, officer of the United States government (1860–1865, full version).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1861–1865) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />26 | File:Hon. William P. Fessenden, Maine - NARA - 529980.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maine | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />27 | File:Hugh McCulloch.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1865–1869) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />28 | File:George Boutwell, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Massachusetts | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1869–1877) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />29 | File:William Adams Richardson Brady-Handy.tif | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Massachusetts | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />30 | File:Benjamin Helm Bristow Brady - Handy U.S. Secretary of Treasury.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />31 | File:Lot M. Morrill Brady-Handy Portrait Photo.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maine | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />32 | File:John-Sherman-2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1877–1881) |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />33 | File:William Windom, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Minnesota | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1881) |
| rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1881–1885) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />34 | File:Secretary Charles J. Folger.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />35 | File:Walter Q. Gresham - Brady-Handy.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />36 | File:Hugh McCulloch.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />37 | File:Secretary Daniel Manning.webp | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1885–1889) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />38 | File:Charles S Fairchild - SecofTreasury.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />39 | File:William Windom, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Minnesota | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1889–1893) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />40 | File:Charles Foster, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1865-1880.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />41 | File:John Griffin Carlisle, Brady-Handy photo portrait, ca1870-1880.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1893–1897) |
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />42 | File:Lyman Gage, Bain photo portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1897–1901) |
| rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1901–1909) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />43 | File:Leslie Shaw, Bain photo portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Iowa | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />44 | File:Cortelyou-george-bruce.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />45 | File:Franklin MacVeagh, formal bw photo portrait, 1909.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1909–1913) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />46 | File:William Gibbs McAdoo, formal photo portrait, 1914.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1913–1921) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />47 | File:Picture of Carter Glass.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Virginia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />48 | File:Picture of David F. Houston.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missouri | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />49 | File:AWMellon.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1921–1923) |
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| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1929–1933) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />50 | File:Ogden Livingston Mills.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />51 | File:Woodin2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1933–1945) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />52 | File:Henry Morgenthau, Jr..jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />53 | File:Frederick Vinson portrait.png | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Kentucky | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1945–1953) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />54 | File:Portrait of John W. Snyder.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Missouri | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />55 | File:George M Humphrey.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1953–1961) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />56 | File:Robert B Anderson.jpeg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Connecticut | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />57 | File:C Douglas Dillon.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Jersey | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1961–1963) |
| rowspan=3 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1963–1969) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />58 | File:HFowler2.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Virginia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />59 | File:Joseph W Barr.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Indiana | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />60 | File:David M Kennedy.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Utah | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1969–1974) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />61 | File:Portrait of John Connally.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Texas | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />62 | File:George Pratt Shultz.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />63 | File:William E Simon.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Jersey | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1974–1977) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />64 | File:Portrait of W. Michael Blumenthal.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Michigan | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1977–1981) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />65 | File:G. William Miller.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Rhode Island | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />66 | File:Donaldtregan1.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Jersey | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1981–1989) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />67 | File:James A. Baker III, U.S. Secretary of State (2380044355).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Texas | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:M Peter McPherson at lectern in 1981 (cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Michigan | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />68 | File:Nicholas F. Brady - Secretary of the Treasury portrait.jpeg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New Jersey | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1989–1993) | ||||||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />69 | File:LloydBentsen.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Texas | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (1993–2001) |
| – | File:Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury.svg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Massachusetts | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />70 | File:Pr4262ls-treasury-rubin.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />71 | File:Lawrence Summers Treasury portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Maryland | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />72 | File:OneilllPaul.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Pennsylvania | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=5 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (2001–2009) |
| – | File:Kenneth Dam.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />73 | File:John W. Snow.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Virginia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:Robert Kimmitt, official Treasury photo.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Virginia | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />74 | File:Henry Paulson official Treasury photo, 2006.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:Stuart Levey.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Ohio | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=4 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (2009–2017) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |75 | File:Timothy Geithner official portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:Neal S. Wolin official portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Illinois | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />76 | File:Jacob Lew official portrait.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | New York | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:Adam Szubin.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
Washington, D.C. | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | rowspan=2 style="background: Template:Party color;" | | Script error: No such module "Sort". (2017–2021) |
| style="background: Template:Party color;" |<templatestyles src="Template:Color/styles.css" />77 | File:Steven Mnuchin official photo (cropped).jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". | California | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | ||
| – | File:Andy Baukol.jpg | Script error: No such module "Sort". ActingScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Efn |
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Succession
Presidential succession
The secretary of the treasury is fifth in the presidential line of succession, following the secretary of state and preceding the secretary of defense.3|19-9|[9]
Succession within the department
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
References
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