The Register of the Treasury is a former office of the United States Treasury Department. The position was instituted in 1861 and lasted until it became part of the Public Debt Service in 1919. It was a primarily bureaucratic position. On United States paper money printed between 1861 and 1923, one can find the signature of the Register of the Treasury alongside the Secretary of the Treasury.
Notably, four Registrars of the Treasury were African-American (Blanche Kelso Bruce, Judson Whitlocke Lyons, William Tecumseh Vernon, and James Carroll Napier), and they are among the five African-Americans whose signatures are found on U.S. paper money.
Registers of the Treasury
| Lucius E. Chittenden (1861-64) | S.B. Colby (1864-67) | Noah L. Jeffries (1867-69) |
| John Allison (1869-78) | Glenni William Scofield (1878-81) | Blanche Kelso Bruce (1881-85)
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| William Starke Rosecrans (1885-93) | James Fount Tillman (1893-97) | Blanche Kelso Bruce (1897-98) |
| Judson Whitlocke Lyons (1898-1906) | William Tecumseh Vernon (1906-11) | James Carroll Napier (1911-13) |
| Gabe E. Parker (1913-14) | Houston Benge Teehee (1915-19) | William S. Elliott (1919-22) |
| Harley V. Speelman (1922-27) | Walter Orr Woods (1927-29) | Edward E. Jones (1929-33) |
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