# Is the Treasurer of the United States always a woman?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 10, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-treasurer-of-the-united-states-always-a-woman/356258 "2006-05-10T19:02:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-treasurer-of-the-united-states-always-a-woman/356258/1 "2006-05-10T19:02:14Z")

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Every piece of paper currency I have, which is admittedly not a lot, has a woman’s name as Treasurer. I noticed this a while back. Is there some sort of rule that the Treasurer has to be a woman?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-treasurer-of-the-united-states-always-a-woman/356258/2 "2006-05-10T19:11:32Z")

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There sure do seem to be a lot of women. In fact, unless I missed one, I had to go all the way back to [William Alexander Julian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Alexander_Julian) to find a dude. [Here’s a list](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasurer_of_the_United_States).

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**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-treasurer-of-the-united-states-always-a-woman/356258/3 "2006-05-10T19:31:04Z")

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Since Truman, it’s been an almost-exclusively female position, and most of the last few have been Hispanic as well. Since it’s not a high-visibility position, it doesn’t get a lot of attention but it still allows administrations to trumpet how progressive they are by having a Hispanic woman in a high office.

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**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-the-treasurer-of-the-united-states-always-a-woman/356258/4 "2006-05-10T19:31:51Z")

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It’s also become something of a tradition in the last few Republican administrations to specifically appoint a Hispanic woman to the position.