The Register of the Treasury was an office of the United States Treasury Department. In 1919, the Register became the Public Debt Service which, in 1940, became the Bureau of the Public Debt

Bureau of the Public Debt

The Bureau of the Public Debt is an agency within the Fiscal Service of the United States Treasury Department. Under authority derived from Article I, section 8 of the Constitution, Public Debt is responsible for borrowing the money needed to operate the federal government, and is where donations...

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The signature of the Register of the Treasury was found on almost all United States currency until 1923, along with that of the Treasurer of the United States

Treasurer of the United States

The Treasurer of the United States is an official in the United States Department of the Treasury that was originally charged with the receipt and custody of government funds, though many of these functions have been taken over by different bureaus of the Department of the Treasury...

. Four of the five African American

African American

African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

s whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, William T. Vernon

William Tecumseh Vernon

Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon was an American minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, president of Western University beginning in 1896, and Register of the Treasury from 1906 to 1911.-Biography:...

 and James C. Napier).

Registers of the Treasury

The Treasury

United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government. It was established by an Act of Congress in 1789 to manage government revenue...

 had eighteen Registers between 1861 to 1933.

Name	Dates served			Name	Dates served
Lucius E. Chittenden Lucius E. Chittenden Lucius Eugene Chittenden was a Vermont author, banker, lawyer, politician and peace advocate who served as Register of the Treasury during the Lincoln administration.-Early life:...	April 17, 1861	to	August 10, 1864	Judson Whitlocke Lyons	April 7, 1898	to	April 1, 1906
S. B. Colby	August 11, 1864	to	September 21, 1867	William Tecumseh Vernon William Tecumseh Vernon Bishop William Tecumseh Vernon was an American minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, president of Western University beginning in 1896, and Register of the Treasury from 1906 to 1911.-Biography:...	June 12, 1906	to	March 14, 1911
Noah L. Jeffries	October 5, 1867	to	March 15, 1869	James Carroll Napier	March 15, 1911	to	September 30, 1913
John Allison John Allison (Representative) John Allison was an American politician, most notably serving in the U.S. House as a Representative of Pennsylvania during the 1850s....	April 3, 1869	to	March 23, 1878	Gabe E. Parker	October 1, 1913	to	December 31, 1914
Glenni William Scofield Glenni William Scofield Glenni William Scofield was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.Glenni W. Scofield was born in Dewittville, New York. He attended the common schools and learned the printing trade. He returned to classical study and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton,...	April 1, 1878	to	May 20, 1881	Houston Benge Teehee	March 24, 1915	to	November 20, 1919
Blanche Kelso Bruce	May 21, 1881	to	June 5, 1885	William S. Elliott	November 21, 1919	to	January 24, 1922
William Starke Rosecrans	June 8, 1885	to	June 19, 1893	Harley V. Speelman	January 25, 1922	to	September 30, 1927
James Fount Tillman James Fount Tillman J. Fount Tillman was the eighth Register of the Treasury, and served during the second term of President Grover Cleveland. As Register of the Treasury, Tillman's signature appeared on US currency issued between July 1, 1893 and December 2, 1897.Prior to working for the Treasury, Tillman served...	July 1, 1893	to	December 2, 1897	Walter Orr Woods	October 1, 1927	to	January 17, 1929
Blanche Kelso Bruce	December 3, 1897	to	March 17, 1898	Edward E. Jones	January 22, 1929	to	May 31, 1933

External links

• U.S. Treasury - Duties and Functions of the Bureau of the Public Debt (cached)