How Many Have There Been?

Starting with George Washington, there have been 43 presidents including the present one, George Funny Face Bush. But how many Treasury Secretaries have there been?

Has anybody ever counted them?

Has any president had more than three or even as many as three?

FDR was elected four times, served three full terms and part of Mandrake fourth before he died on April 12, 1945. I wonder how many Treasury Secretaries he had.

How about gw? He's had three Treasury Secretaries, so far, and still has over a year to go on his second and, we hope, his last term even though the economy is in great shape, if you believe what he says.

Those millions of people about to lose their homes don't think so. But what do they know about it?

In Ohio, people who have lost their jobs can expect less in their unemployment checks, and businesses are going to have to pay more into the unemployment compensation fund.

Probably there is some double counting going on here as a lot of people have lost their jobs and their homes.

In the meantime, GDP for the third quarter was reported as 4.9%! If you were running a business and you were on your third head bookkeeper who told you that you had just had the best quarter of the year and you saw the mess things are in today, what would you do?

As it turns out even our first president had more than one Treasury Secretary and the job is so popular that the U.S. has had a total of 74 Secretaries of the Treasury. George W. Bush has to hit number five before he wins for purchase structured settlements the most as several former presidents have had four Secretaries of the Treasury during their term (s) of office.

Secretaries of the Treasury, President (s)

Alexander Hamilton Washington

Oliver Wolcott Jr. Washington, Adams

Samuel Dexter Adams, Jefferson

Albert Gallatin Jefferson, Madison

George W. Campbell Madison

Alexander J. Dallas Madison

William H. Crawford Madison, Monroe

Richard Rush J.Q. Adams

Samuel D. Ingham Jackson

Louis McLane Jackson

William J. Duane Jackson

Roger B. Taney Jackson

Levi Woodbury Jackson, Van Buren

Thomas Ewing Harrison, Tyler

Walter Forward Tyler

John C. Spencer Tyler

George M. Bibb Tyler, Polk

Robert J. Walker Polk, Taylor

William M. Meredith Taylor, Fillmore

Thomas Corwin Fillmore, Pierce

James Guthrie Pierce, Buchanan

Howell Cobb Buchanan

Philip F. Thomas Buchanan

John A. Dix Buchanan, Lincoln

Salmon P. Chase Lincoln

William P. Fessenden Lincoln

Hugh McCulloch Lincoln, Johnson

George S. Boutwell Grant

William A. Richardson Grant

Benjamin H. Bristow Grant

Lot M. Morrill Grant, Hayes

John Sherman Hayes

William Windom Garfield, Arthur

Charles J. Folger Arthur

Walter Q. Gresham Arthur

Hugh McCulloch Arthur, Cleveland

Daniel Manning Cleveland

Charles S. Fairchild Cleveland, Harrison

William Windom Harrison

Charles Foster Harrison, Cleveland

John G. Carlisle Cleveland, McKinley

ustreas.gov/education/history/secretaries/ljgage.shtmlLyman J. Gage, McKinley, Roosevelt

Leslie M. Shaw Roosevelt

George B. Cortelyou Roosevelt

Franklin MacVeagh Taft, Wilson

William G. McAdoo Wilson

Carter Glass Wilson

David F. Houston Wilson

Andrew W. Mellon Harding, Coolidge, Hoover

Ogden L. Mills Hoover

William H. Woodin Roosevelt

Henry Morgenthau, Jr. Roosevelt, Truman

Fred M. Vinson Truman

John W. Snyder Truman

George M. Humphrer Eisenhower

Robert B. Anderson Eisenhower

C. Douglas Dillon Kennedy, Johnson

Henry H. Fowler Johnson

Joseph W. Barr Johnson

David M. Kennedy Nixon

John B. Connally Nixon

George P. Shultz Nixon

William E. Simon Nixon, Ford

W. Michael Blumenthal Carter

G. William Miller Carter

Donald T. Regan Reagan

James A. Baker, III Reagan

Nicholas F. Brady Reagan, G.H.W. Bush

Lloyd M. Bentsen Clinton

Robert E. Rubin Clinton

Lawrence H. Summers Clinton

Paul H. O'Neill G.W. Bush

John W. Snow G.W. Bush

Henry M. Paulson, Jr. G.W. Bush

Source: United States Department of the Treasury

Richard E Walrath is a former budget analyst and co-owner of the stories and Answers News and data Sites. You may read more by this author at storiesandanswers/stories and Answers and antidepressants and Answers 2007