- Register of the Treasury
The Register of the Treasury was an office of the
United States Treasury Department . In 1919, the Register became thePublic Debt Service which, in 1940, became theBureau of the Public Debt .The signature of the Register of the Treasury was found on almost all
United States currency until 1923, along with that of theTreasurer of the United States . Four of the fiveAfrican American s whose signatures have appeared on U.S. currency were Registrars of the Treasury (Blanche K. Bruce ,Judson W. Lyons ,William T. Vernon andJames C. Napier ). [cite book |last=Turkel |first=Stanley |title=Heroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and Activists |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=cPzVqTea6JgC&printsec=frontcover#PPA7-IA5,M1 |year=2005 |publisher=McFarland & Company |location=Jefferson, NC |isbn=0-786-41943-1 |pages=p. 6 |quote=Senator Bruce was also the first black man to preside over the Senate and the first whose signature appeared on all the nation's paper currency (as Register of the Treasury starting on May 18, 1881)] [cite book |last=Holden |first=Henry M. |title=To Be a U.S. Secret Service Agent |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=PXqlW88zJzMC&printsec=frontcover#PPA90,M1 |year=2006 |publisher=Zenith Imprint |location=St Paul, Minnesota |isbn=0-760-32293-7 |pages=90 |quote=] [cite web |author= |title=African Americans on Currency |date= |work=Bureau of Engraving and Printing |url=http://www.moneyfactory.gov/document.cfm/18/97 |accessdate=2007-11-20 ]Registers of the Treasury
The Treasury had eighteen Registers between 1861 to 1933. [cite web |url=http://www.uspapermoney.info/sign/registers.html |title=Registers of the Treasury |accessdate=2007-11-21 |author= |date= |work= |publisher=USPaperMoney.Info]
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External links
* [http://216.109.125.130/search/cache?p=%22Public+Debt+Service%22+treasury&prssweb=Search&ei=UTF-8&fl=0&u=www.treas.gov/education/duties/bureaus/public-debt.shtml&w=%22public+debt+service%22+treasury&d=TIEoVo6CLwSO&icp=1&.intl=us U.S. Treasury - Duties and Functions of the Bureau of the Public Debt (cached)]
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