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1995 Infinity Radio agrees to voluntarily pay $1.7 million to U.S. Treasury

1986 Treasury Department announces plans to alter paper money

1973 Walter Greaza, actor (Leonard-Martin Kane, Treasury Men), dies at 76

1966 U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints

1961 Timothy Geithner, born in Brooklyn, New York, United States Secretary of the Treasury, under President Barack Obama, served as President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, charged with directing financial crisis of December 2007

1954 Largest check: Internal U.S. Treasury check at $4,176,969,623.57

1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury and MP

1948 Anthony Nelson, British Secretary of Treasury

1934 Peter Middleton, British permanent secretary, Treasury

1930 James Baker III, Houston, Secretary of Treasury, 1985 - 1988, Secretary of State, 1989 - 1992

1930 Nicholas F. Brady, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1988 - 1993

1927 William Simon, U.S. sect of Treasury

1918 Donald Regan, White House staffer and U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1981 - 1985

1909 C. Dillon Douglas, born in Geneva, Switzerland, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1961 - 1965

1908 John Volpe, Gov-Mass, U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1969 - 1973

1897 Francis Turner Palgrave, poet/editor (Golden Treasury), dies at 73

1891 Henry Morgenthau, Jr., U.S. Secretary of Treasury, 1934 - 1945

1891 Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Department) created

1878 Blanche Kelso Bruce appointed register of treasury by President Garfield

1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing New York treasury

1866 U.S. Treasury Department authorizes nickel

1865 Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Department

1855 Andrew W. Mellon, founder, Mellon Bank, U.S. Secretary of Treasury

1824 Francis Turner Palgrave, Eng, poet, Golden Treasury, Professor, Oxford

1815 Howell Cobb II, Major General/Secy of Treasury, Union

1808 Hugh McCulloch, U.S. Secretary of Treasury

1807 George Alfred Trenholm, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy

1806 William Pitt Fessenden, Secretary Treasury, Union

1804 Alexander Hamilton, Sect of Treasury, dies in pistol duel

1803 Christopher Gustavus Memminger, Secretary Treasury, Confederacy

1789 Office of Postmaster General is created under the Treasury Department

1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed 1st Secretary of Treasury

1789 U.S. Treasury Department established by Congress

1755 Alexander Hamilton, West Indies, 1st U.S. Secretary of Treasury, face is on the $10 bill

1721 Robert Walpole becomes England's 1st Lord of the Treasury


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