Registers of the Treasury

See also: Treasurers of the United States | Secretaries of the Treasury

From 1861 to 1935, seventeen different Registers of the Treasury signed U.S. currency. The table below lists all these Registers in chronological order and presents a specimen of each signature. (Well, most of them, anyway; this page is under construction for the forseeable future....)

SignatureName and Term
Lucius E. Chittenden
4/17/1861 - 8/10/1864
S. B. Colby
8/11/1864 - 9/21/1867
Noah L. Jeffries
10/5/1867 - 3/15/1869
John Allison
4/3/1869 - 3/23/1878
Glenni William Scofield
4/1/1878 - 5/20/1881
Blanche Kelso Bruce
5/21/1881 - 6/5/1885
William Starke Rosecrans
6/8/1885 - 6/19/1893
James Fount Tillman
7/1/1893 - 12/2/1897
Blanche Kelso Bruce
12/3/1897 - 3/17/1898
Judson Whitlocke Lyons
4/7/1898 - 4/1/1906
William Tecumseh Vernon
6/12/1906 - 3/14/1911
James Carroll Napier
3/15/1911 - 9/30/1913
Gabe E. Parker
10/1/1913 - 12/31/1914
Houston Benge Teehee
3/24/1915 - 11/20/1919
image courtesy Juan Herrera William S. Elliott
11/21/1919 - 1/24/1922
Harley V. Speelman
1/25/1922 - 9/30/1927
Walter Orr Woods
10/1/1927 - 1/17/1929
Edward Everett Jones
1/22/1929 - 5/31/1933

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