Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts

Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Seal of Massachusetts
Incumbent Deb Goldberg since January 21, 2015
Style	Her Honor
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Henry Gardner
Formation	1780
Website	www.mass.gov/treasury

The Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts (commonly called the "treasurer") is an executive officer, elected statewide every four years.

The Treasurer oversees the Office of Abandoned Property, escheated accounts, the State Retirement Board, the Office of Cash Management, the Office of Debt Management, the lottery, the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, the Pension Reserves Investment Management Board, the Water Pollution Abatement Trust, the office of Financial Education Programs, The Office of Economic Empowerment, and the office of Deferred Compensation. The Office of the Treasurer and Receiver-General additionally performs the role of Chairman over the independent public authority known as the Massachusetts School Building Authority.^[1]

The current Treasurer is Deb Goldberg, who took office January 21, 2015.

List of Treasurers and Receivers-General[]

#	Treasurer and Receiver-General	Party	Years
1	Henry Gardner, Sr.		1780– 1783
2			1783– 1787
3			1787– 1792
4	Thomas Davis		1792– 1797
5	Peleg Coffin	Federalist	1797– 1801
6	Jonathan Jackson	Federalist	1802– 1806
7	Thomson J. Skinner	Democratic- Republican	1806– 1808
8	Josiah Dwight		1808– 1810
9			1810– 1811
10	Jonathan L. Austin	Democratic- Republican	1811– 1812
11	John T. Apthorp		1812– 1817
12	Daniel Sargent		1817– 1822
13	Nahum Mitchell	Federalist	1822– 1827
14			1827– 1832
15	Hezekiah Barnard		1832– 1837
16	David Wilder, Jr.	Whig	1837– 1842
17			1842– 1843
18	John Mills		1843– 1844
19			1844– 1845
20			1845– 1849
21	Ebenezer Bradbury	Whig	1849– 1851
22	Charles B. Hall		1851– 1853
23	Jacob H. Loud		1853– 1855
24			1855– 1856
25	Moses Tenney, Jr.	Opposition	1856– 1861
26	Henry Kemble Oliver	Republican	1861– 1866
27	Jacob H. Loud	Republican	1866– 1871
28		Republican	1871– 1876
29	Charles Endicott	Republican	1876– 1881
30	Daniel A. Gleason	Republican	1881– 1886
31	Alanson W. Beard	Republican	1886– 1889
32	George A. Marden	Republican	1889– 1894
33		Republican	1894– April 12, 1895
34	Edward P. Shaw	Republican	April 25, 1895– 1900
35	Edward S. Bradford	Republican	1900–1905
36	Arthur Chapin	Republican	1905– April 1, 1909
37	Elmer A. Stevens	Republican	April 7, 1909– 1914
38	Frederick Mansfield	Democratic	1914– 1915
39	Charles L. Burrill	Republican	1915– 1920
40	Fred J. Burrell	Republican	1920– September 3, 1920
Acting	Albert P. Langtry (Acting) Henry A. Wyman (Acting) John R. Macomber (Acting)[2]	Republican	September 4, 1920– September 8, 1920
41	James Jackson	Republican	September 8, 1920– 1924
42	William S. Youngman	Republican	1924– 1928
43	John W. Haigis	Republican	1928– 1930
44	Charles F. Hurley	Democratic	1931– 1937
Acting			1937
45	William E. Hurley	Republican	1937– 1943
46	Francis X. Hurley	Democratic	1943– 1945
47	John E. Hurley	Democratic	1945– 1947
48	Laurence Curtis	Republican	1947– 1949
49	John E. Hurley	Democratic	1949– July 5, 1952
50	Foster Furcolo	Democratic	July 5, 1952– 1955
51	John Francis Kennedy	Democratic	1955– 1961
52	John T. Driscoll	Democratic	1961– 1964
53	Robert Q. Crane	Democratic	1964– 1991
54	Joe Malone	Republican	January 3, 1991– January 7, 1999
55	Shannon O'Brien	Democratic	January 7, 1999– January 2, 2003
56	Tim Cahill	Democratic	January 2, 2003– July 2009
		Independent	July 2009– January 3, 2011
57	Steve Grossman	Democratic	January 17, 2011– January 21, 2015
58	Deb Goldberg	Democratic	January 21, 2015– present

See also[]

• Government budget

References[]

External links[]

• Official site, via Mass.gov
• John Hull (merchant)