- Peter Costello
Peter Howard Costello (born 14 August 1957), Australian politician, has been Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party since 1994, and Treasurer in the Australian government since 1996, making him the longest serving treasurer in Australian history.
- John Howard
John Winston Howard is an Australian politician and the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. He is the second-longest serving Australian Prime Minister after Sir Robert Menzies. He previously served as Treasurer in the government led by Malcolm Fraser from 1977–1983 and was Leader of the Liberal Party (thus also Leader of the Coalition Opposition) from 1985–1989 through the 1987 federal election against Bob Hawke. Elected again as Leader of the Opposition in 1995, …
- Phil Angelides
California State Treasurer Phil Angelides has made his mark in the civic life of California as an effective public leader and as a successful and innovative businessman. As Treasurer, Mr. Angelides has worked to create jobs and opportunity for all by investing in California communities. To protect the financial security of the state's families, he has been a leader in the national movement to reform corporate practices that have harmed the economy and shareholders.
- Paul Keating
Paul John Keating (born 18 January 1944), is a former Australian politician and the 24th Prime Minister of Australia, serving as Prime Minister from 1991 to 1996. He came to prominence as the reforming Treasurer in the Hawke government. As Prime Minister he is noted for his many legislative achievements, and his victory in the 1993 Federal election, which many had considered "unwinnable" for Labor.
- Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray (born May 3, 1959) is an American politician of the Democratic Party who currently serves as the State Treasurer of Ohio. Cordray graduated from Michigan State University, earned a master's degree in economics from Oxford University, and obtained his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. Cordray was elected to an unexpired term as Treasurer in 2002 defeating political appointee Wade Steen and elected to a full four-year term in 2004.
- Mary Lee
Mary Lee (February 14, 1821 - September 18, 1909) was an Irish-Australian suffragist and social reformer in South Australia. Mary Walsh was born in Ireland. She was married in 1844 to George Lee. The couple had seven children however little more is known about her life in Ireland. Her son Ben moved to Adelaide, Australia. When he fell ill in 1879, Mary and her daughter, Evelyn, immigrated to Australia. They travelled on the maiden voyage of the steamship "Orient".
- John Martin
John Martin (c.1730-January, 1786) was an American planter, soldier, and politician. He served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Continental Army. His political service includes mayor of Savannah, Georgia (1778), sheriff of Chatham County, Georgia, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, state Treasurer, and revolutionary governor of Georgia from 1782 to 1783. Martin was born in Rhode Island and subsequently moved to Georgia in 1767 with his brother James.
- Sarah Steelman
Sarah Steelman (born May 3, 1958) is an American politician from Missouri. She was born in Jefferson City and educated in the Jefferson City public schools. In 2004 she was elected State Treasurer. She is a member of the Republican Party. Steelman's political career began with her election to the Missouri State Senate in 1998, representing Rolla, Missouri and surrounding counties.
- Alexi Giannoulias
State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias delivers his inaugural address in Springfield. ... Springfield -- Alexi Giannoulias was sworn in as the Illinois State Treasurer on Monday, the first Democrat to hold the office in 12 years.
- Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st United States President. His acts of philanthropy ranged from monetary donations to volunteerism. Hoover donated his entire presidential salary to charity. More >> Hoover is known for being elected president by one of the biggest majorities in the history of the Republican Party. Hoover's administration worked for legislation to protect children, to help small businesses and homeowners, and legislation for the reform of criminals.
- Ann Richards
Dorothy Ann (Willis) Richards (September 1, 1933 - September 13, 2006) was an American politician and teacher from Texas. She first came to national attention as the Texas state treasurer, when she delivered the keynote address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. Richards served as Governor of Texas from 1991 to 1995 and was defeated for re-election in 1994. Born during the start of the Depression in rural Texas, …
- John Watson
John Watson was a lawyer,Notary Public at the Court of Chivalry (8) and officer of arms at the College of Arms (1) in London. He served as commissary and treasurer to Major Legge and Colonel Washington in the Royalist Army during the English Civil War. (2) He was born at Bengeworth near Evesham, Worcestershire, the son of William Watson and Alice Egioke.(3). He married Anne, the daughter of George Dethick (4)who was the Registrar of the Court of Chivalry.
- Frank Miller
Frank Stuart Miller, O.Ont (May 14, 1927 - July 21, 2000) was a Canadian politician, who served briefly as Premier of Ontario for four months in 1985.
- Anna Bligh
Anna Maria Bligh is the Deputy Premier of Queensland, Treasurer and Minister for Infrastructure. She is also deputy leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland and is being groomed as Premier Peter Beattie’s likely successor. Anna Bligh was first elected to the Queensland Parliament on 15 July 1995 as the Member (MP) for South Brisbane, where she and her family have lived for over 20 years. Following the election of the Beattie Labor Government in June 1998, …
- Gough Whitlam
Edward Gough Whitlam, AC, QC (born 11 July 1916), known as Gough Whitlam (pronounced "Goff"), is an Australian former politician and 21st Prime Minister of Australia. After initially falling short of gaining enough seats to win government at the 1969 election, Whitlam led the Labor Party in to government at the 1972 election after 23 years of conservative government in Australia.
- Kevin Foley
Kevin Foley, Australian politician, is the current Deputy Premier of South Australia, serving under Premier Mike Rann. Foley is a member of the Australian Labor Party. He also serves as Treasurer, Minister Assisting the Premier in Economic Development, Minister for Police and Minister for Federal/State Relations. He represents the electorate of Port Adelaide in the House of Assembly. The 2006 state election saw Foley receive a swing of 4.0% resulting in a margin of 25.7%.
- Eric Ripper
Eric Ripper (born 1951) is an Australian politician. A member of the Australian Labor Party, he is currently the [Deputy Premier and [Treasurer] of Western Australia. Ripper entered the Cabinet upon the formation of the Labor Government following the 2001 Western Australian election. He became Minister for Energy in 2001. Ripper had previously served as Deputy Premier, Treasurer, …
- Christine Radogno
Christine Radogno is a Republican politician in the United States, and a member of the Illinois Senate for the 41st District since 1997. In 2006, she was the Republican nominee for Illinois State Treasurer, losing to Democrat Alexi Giannoulias. Senator Radogno lives with her husband Nunzio in LaGrange. They have three daughters. She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago.
- Jack Dromey
Jack Dromey (born 21 September 1948) is a British trade unionist, Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union and Treasurer of the Labour Party. He was for some time the Secretary of the Brent Trades Council, including when it organised the Grunwick Dispute in 1977. He is married to the newly-elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman. Dromey was elected Deputy General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, …
- Michael O'Brien
Michael O’Brien is the member for Malvern in the legislative assembly of the Parliament of Victoria. He was first elected at the general election held 25 November 2006 and is a member of the Liberal Party of Australia. He replaced former Liberal leader Robert Doyle, who did not recontest the election following his resignation as Leader of the Opposition.
- Timothy P. Cahill
Tim Cahill (b. ?1959) is the current Massachusetts Treasurer and Receiver-General.
- Matt Fong
Matt Fong is a Republican political leader from California and former state treasurer. Fong, the adopted son of former Democratic California Secretary of State March Fong Eu, graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1975, Pepperdine University MBA in 1982 and from law school at the Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles in 1985.
- Kathleen Brown
Kathleen Brown (b. 15th October 1946) is Democratic politician from California. She is the daughter of former Governor Pat Brown and the sister of California Attorney General Jerry Brown (also a former Governor of California). Brown is an attorney and was first elected to the Los Angeles City Board of Education in 1975, and reelected in 1979. She was elected California State Treasurer in 1990.
- Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper (February 12, 1791 - April 4, 1883) was an American industrialist, inventor, philanthropist, and candidate for President of the United States.
- Ross Mirkarimi
Ross Mirkarimi (b. 1961) is a progressive on the Board of Supervisors at City Hall in San Francisco, California. He was elected in 2004 to represent the city's fifth district, which encompasses the Haight-Ashbury, parts of Hayes Valley, Western Addition, Alamo Square and a portion of the Inner Sunset neighborhoods. Mirkarimi co-founded the California chapter of the Green Party.
- Andrew Tobias
Andrew Tobias (born April 20, 1947) is an American journalist, author and columnist, whose main body of work is on investment, but who has also written on politics, insurance and other topics. He is also the current treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (since 1999). Tobias graduated from Harvard University in 1968 with a degree (B.A.) in Slavic languages and literatures. In 1972, he obtained his Masters of Business Administration degree from Harvard as well.
- Robert Dean
Robert Logan Dean (born 31 October 1952) Australian politician is former member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. Before entering politics, Dean worked as a lawyer, having obtained a Doctor of Laws from the University of Melbourne. In 1992 Dean, a long time Liberal Party of Australia activist obtained preselection for the marginal Australian Labor Party seat of Berwick and in the wake of the 1992 Kennett landslide he easily defeated former Treasurer Robert Jolly.
- John Forrest
Sir John Forrest GCMG PC (22 August 1847–2 September 1918) was an Australian explorer, the first Premier of Western Australia and a cabinet minister in Australia's first federal parliament. As a young man, John Forrest won fame as an explorer by leading three expeditions into the interior of Western Australia. He was appointed Surveyor General and in 1890 became the first Premier of Western Australia, its only premier as a self-governing colony.
- Barbara Lawton
Barbara Lawton was born in suburban Milwaukee, spent her adolescent years in Racine County, and has lived in urban Green Bay for the last twenty-five years. She graduated summa cum laude from Lawrence in 1987 and went on to earn an M.A. from UW-Madison in 1991.
- David Harvey
David Q Harvey was the treasurer of the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians between 1985 and 1990, during which time sales and turnover increased by 40% as his and John Featherstone's efforts reaped their reward. A meticulous planner, Harvey had the daunting task in 1986 at his first AGM as Treasurer to propose that subscriptions be raised from £6 to £9, a long overdue increase and the first for four years.
- Mark Murray
Mark Murray is president of Meijer and was the third president of Grand Valley State University, serving from 2001 to 2006. He received his master's degree in Labor and Industrial Relations and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Michigan State University. Prior to his tenure at Grand Valley, he served in Michigan state government. His positions were: treasurer, budget director, director of the Department of Management and Budget, …
- Myles Standish
Captain Myles Standish Kt. (c. 1584 - October 3, 1656), (sometimes spelled "Miles" Standish) was an English-born professional soldier hired by the Pilgrims as military advisor for Plymouth colony. Arriving on the "Mayflower", he worked on colonial defense. On February 17, 1621, he was appointed the first commander of Plymouth colony. Later, he served as Plymouth's representative in England, and served as assistant governor and as the colony's treasurer.
- Nathan Smith
Nathan Smith was one of New England’s best-known and respected physicians. He was a skilled surgeon, teacher, writer, and practitioner. At a time when most American physicians were poorly educated, he single-handedly founded Dartmouth Medical School, and co-founded the University of Vermont College of Medicine, the medical school at Bowdoin College, and the Yale School of Medicine. Initially the only member of the Dartmouth Medical School faculty, Smith taught anatomy, …
- Penny Pritzker
Penny Pritzker (1959) is the granddaughter of Abram Nicholas Pritzker, the niece of Jay Pritzker, and the operator of Classic Residence by Hyatt for the Pritzker family. In 1981 she received a BA in Economics from Harvard University also getting a JD and MBA from Stanford University, since 2002 she has sat on Harvard's Board of Overseers. Currently, she is the head of Barack Obama's presidential campaign finances
- Forrest Claypool
Forrest Claypool is an American politician and a Democratic Party member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners. An attorney, Claypool has lived in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago for the past 15 years. He is married and has three children.
- Cynthia Lummis
Cynthia M. Lummis (born September 10, 1954) is a Republican lawyer and rancher in Cheyenne who served as the Wyoming state treasurer from 1999-2007 -- the 29th person to hold the position. In that capacity, she managed over $8 billion in annual funds and was elected president of the Western State Treasurer's Association. Earlier, she was a member of the Wyoming State Senate (1982-1994) and the Wyoming House of Representatives (1979-1982).
- Shane Osborn
Shane Osborn (born 1974) is the state treasurer of Nebraska.
- Eugene V. Debs
Eugene Victor Debs (November 5, 1855-October 20, 1926) was an American labor and political leader, one of the founders of the International Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and five-time Socialist Party of America candidate for President of the United States.
- Scott Sullivan
Scott D. Sullivan is an American Certified Public Accountant and the former Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Secretary of WorldCom, who engineered WorldCom's $11-billion accounting fraud, the largest scandal of its kind in U.S. history. Sullivan entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to five years in prison as part of a plea agreement in which Sullivan testified against former WorldCom CEO Bernard Ebbers, …
- Candice Miller
Candice Miller (born May 7 1954) is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of Michigan, currently representing Michigan's 10th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The district stretches from the eastern suburbs of Detroit to the Michigan Thumb. Miller was born in Detroit and graduated from Lakeshore High School in St. Clair Shores. She attended both Macomb Community College in Warren and Northwood Institute for Business Management.