DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

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INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE The Internal Revenue Service, in charge of the enforcement and administration of all internal revenue except those pertaining to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives, was established in 1792. It was suppressed from 1802 to 1813 and from 1817 to 1861. In 1918 - 1927 it was also entrusted with the enforcement of the Prohibition Laws. Commissioners 1870 - 1871 John W. Douglass* 1871 Alfred Pleasonton 1824 - 1897 1871 - 1875 John W. Douglass (2x) 1875 - 1876 Daniel D. Pratt 1876 - 1883 Green Berry Raum 1829 - 1909 1883 Henry C. Rogers* 1883 John J. Knox* 1883 - 1885 Walter Evans 1842 - 1923 1885 - 1889 Joseph S. Miller 1889 - 1893 John W. Mason 1893 - 1896 Joseph S. Miller (2X) 1896 - 1897 W. St. John Forman 1898 - 1899 Nathan Bay Scott 1842 - 1924 1899 - 1900 George W. Wilson 1900 Robert Williams Jr.* 1900 - 1907 John W. Yerkes 1907 Henry C. Rogers* (2x) 1907 - 1909 John G. Capers 1909 - 1913 Royal E. Cabell 1913 - 1917 William H. Osborn 1856 - 1921 1917 - 1920 Daniel Calhoun Roper 1867 - 1943 1920 - 1921 William M. Williams 1921 Millard F. West* 1921 - 1929 David H. Blair 1929 - 1930 Robert Hendry Lucas 1888 - 1947 1930 H. F. Mires* 1930 - 1933 David Burnet 1933 Pressly R. Baldridge* 1933 - 1943 Guy Tresilian Helvering 1878 - 1946 1943 - 1944 Robert Emmet Hannegan 1903 - 1949 1944 Harold N. Graves* 1944 - 1947 Joseph D. Nunan Jr. ____________________________________________________________________________ U.S. COAST GUARD The U.S. Coast Guard was established in 1915 by the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service. (1) The Revenue Cutter Service - first known as the System of Cutters and then (to 1894) as the Revenue Marine Service - was established in 1790 within the Department of the Treasury in order to collect duties and to enforce customs laws in the American ports and the surrounding waters. Originally life-saving at sea had been organised by volunteer organisations, one of the most important beung the Massachusetts Humane Society. In 1848 the U.S. government started supporting these organisations with funds and equipement and in 1878 a regular U.S. life-saving service was established within the Department of the Treasury. (1) During the war years, from 1917 to 1919 and from 1941 to 1946, the Coast Guard was under control of the Department of the Navy. During WWII the Coast Guard assumed the defence of Greenland General Superintendent of the U.S. Life-Saving Service 1878 - 1915 Sumner Increase Kimball 1834 – 1923 Chiefs of the Marine Revenue Service 1869 - 1871 N. Broughton Devereux 1871 - 1878 Sumner Increase Kimball s.a. 1878 - 1885 Ezra Clark 1885 - 1889 Peter Bonnett 1889 - 1894 Leonard G. Shepard 1846 - 1895 Commandants / Chiefs of the Revenue Cutter Service 1894 - 1895 Leonard G. Shepard s.a. 1895 - 1905 Charles F. Shoemaker 1841 - 1913 1905 - 1911 Worth G. Ross 1854 - 1916 1911 - 1915 Ellsworth Price Bertholf 1866 - 1921 Commandants of the U.S. Coast Guard 1915 - 1919 Ellsworth Price Bertholf s.a. 1919 - 1924 William E. Reynolds 1860 - 1944 1924 - 1932 Frederick C. Billard 1873 - 1932 1932 - 1936 Harry Gabriel Hamlet 1874 - 1954 1936 - 1946 Russell Randolph Waesche 1886 - 1946 ____________________________________________________________________________ U.S. MINT The Mint of the United States was established in 1792 to supervise the manufacturing of U.S. coins and medals. It was under the supervision of the Department of the Treasury since 1835 and was fully integrated into this department in 1873. Directors of the U.S. Mint 1869 - 1873 James Pollock 1811 - 1890 1873 - 1878 Henry Richard Linderman (2x) 1878 - 1879 ... 1879 - 1885 Horatio C. Burchard 1885 - 1889 James P. Kimball 1889 - 1893 Edward O. Leech 1893 - 1898 Robert E. Preston 1898 - 1907 George E. Roberts 1907 - 1909 Frank Aleomon Leach 1909 - 1910 Abraham "Abram" Piatt Andrew 1873 - 1936 1910 - 1914 George E. Roberts (2x) 1914 - 1915 ... 1915 - 1916 Robert W. Wooley 1916 - 1917 Friedrich Johannes Hugo von Engelken 1917 - 1922 Raymond T. Baker 1922 - 1923 F. Ed. Scobey 1923 - 1933 Robert J. Grant 1933 - 1953 Nellie Davis Tayloe Ross° 1876 - 1977 ____________________________________________________________________________ U.S. SECRET SERVICE The US Secret Service (USSS) - named Secret Service Division (SSD) to 1943 - was formed in 1865 as part of the Treasury Department to enforce federal laws against the counterfeiting and the forging of the US currency and to maintain the safety of the Treasury Building. (2) Following the assassination of President McKinley (in 1901) the service also started assuming the protection of the US Presidents in 1902. This task was later extended to also include the protection of the President elect (1913), the President's immediate family (1917) and of the White House (1930) (3) (2) These kind of crimes had been locally handled by US marshals and district attorneys until 1860 when responsability was transferred to the Secretary of the Treasury. The SSD formally became a separate office in 1883. (3) In this year the SSD merged with the White House Police Force set up in 1922. Chiefs of the SSD/USSS 1869 - 1874 Herman C. Whitley 1874 - 1876 Elmer Washburn 1876 - 1888 James Brooks 1888 - 1890 John S. Bell 1891 - 1894 A.L. Drummond 1894 - 1898 William P. Hazen 1898 - 1911 John E. Wilkie 1860 - 1934 1912 - 1917 William J. Flynn 1867 - 1928 1917 - 1936 William H. Moran 1937 - 1946 Frank J. Wilson
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