According to statute, the Fiscal Assistant Secretary is appointed by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.[1] The Fiscal Assistant Secretary is the highest ranking career official in the Department of the Treasury. The Fiscal Service, which the Fiscal Assistant Secretary heads,[2] includes the Bureau of Government Financial Operations[3] (which since 1984 has been known as the Financial Management Service and the Bureau of the Public Debt.[4]
The Fiscal Assistant Secretary is responsible for the following principal functions:[5]
Name | Assumed office | Left office | Secretary appointed by | Administration served under |
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Edward F. Bartelt | 1945[6] | 1955[7] | Fred M. Vinson | Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower |
John K. Carlock[8] | 1972 | 1974 | George P. Shultz | Richard Nixon |
David Mosso[8] | 1975 | 1977 | William E. Simon | Gerald Ford |
Paul H. Taylor[9] | July 5, 1978 | 1986 | W. Michael Blumenthal | James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr., Ronald Reagan |
Gerald Murphy[10] | 1986 | 1998 | James Baker | Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton |
Donald V. Hammond | 1998 | 2007 | Robert Rubin | Bill Clinton, George W. Bush |
Kenneth E. Carfine[11] | 2007 | 2010 | Henry Paulson | George W. Bush |
Richard L. Gregg[12] | May 12, 2010 | June 30, 2014 | Timothy Geithner | Barack Obama |
David Lebryk[13] | July 1, 2014 | Present | Jack Lew | Barack Obama, Donald Trump, Joe Biden |