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.
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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 GreenlandGeneral 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
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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
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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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