City Treasurer of Chicago

The City Treasurer of Chicago is an elected official of the City of Chicago.

City Treasurer of Chicago
Seal of the City of Chicago
Incumbent
Melissa Conyears-Ervin
since May 20, 2019
Term length4 years
WebsiteOffice of the City Treasurer of Chicago

Current occupant
Main article: Melissa Conyears

The current City Treasurer of Chicago is Democrat Melissa Conyears. [1] Conyears was elected by Chicago citizens on April 2, 2019,[2] and took the oath of office on May 20, 2019.[3] She was preceded in office by Kurt Summers.[4] Conyears was elected in the 2019 Chicago runoff election, which also included the office of mayor, beating 47th Ward Alderman Ameya Pawar. She is the fourth African American woman to hold to position after Stephanie Neely and Judy Rice and Barbara Lumpkin.

Duties of the Treasurer

The City Treasurer’s Office is the custodian and manager of all cash and investments for the City of Chicago, the four City employee pension funds, and the Chicago Teacher’s Pension Fund. Additionally, the Treasurer’s Office manages a number of programs that promote financial education and small business growth in Chicago’s neighborhoods. The Treasurer is one of three city-wide elected officials in the City of Chicago, with the Mayor and the Clerk being the others.

The City Treasurer's office operates a web page describing the office's powers and duties.[5]

City Treasurers
City ClerksTermNotes
Melissa Conyears-Ervin2019–Assumed office May 20, 2019
Kurt Summers2014–2019Was appointed in 2014
Stephanie Neely2006–2014Was appointed in 2006
Judith Rice2000-2006Was appointed in 2000[6]
Miriam Santos 2000 [7]
Barbara Lumpkin 1999–2000 [7][8]
Miriam Santos 1989–1999 [8]
Cecil A. Partee1979–1989[9]
Joseph G. Bertand1971–1979[9]
Marshall Korshak1967–1971[9]
William G. Milota1961–1967[9]
Edmund P. Currey1960–1961Acting treasurer[9]
Sidney D. Deutsch1957–1960Was appointed in 1957[9]
Morris B. Sachs1955–1957[9]
David L. Hartigan1954–1955[9]
William G. Milota1949–1954[9]
Joseph T. Baran1947–1949[9]
Raymond Drymalski1943–1947[9]
Thomas S. Gordon1939–1943[9]
Gustave A. Brand1935–1937[9]
James A. Kearns1931–1935[9]
August B. Singer1931[9]
Charles S. Peterson1927–1931[9]
John A. Carvenka1923–1927[9]
Clayton F. Smith1921–1923[9]
Henry Stuckart1919–1921[9]
Clayton F. Smith1917–1919[9]
Fred H. Bartlett1916–1917[9]
Charles Sergel1915–1916[9]
Michael J. Flynn1913–1915[9]
Henry Stuckart1911–1913[9]
Isaac N. Powell1909–1911[9]
John E. Traeger1907–1909[9]
Fred W. Blocki1905–1907[9]
Ernst Hummel1903–1906[9]
Charles F. Gunther1901–1903[9]
Adam Ortseifen1899–1901[9]
Adam Wolf1895–1897[9]
Michael J. Bransfield1893–1895[9]
Peter Kiołbassa1891–1893[9]
Bernard Roesing1889–1891[9]
C. Herman Plautz1887–1889[9]
William M. Devine1885–1887[9]
John H. Dunphy1883–1885[9]
Rudolph Brand1881–1883[9]
William C. Saipp1879–1881[9]
Charles R. Larrabee1877–1879[9]
Clinton Briggs1876–1877[9]
Daniel O'Hara1873–1875[9]
David Allen Gage1869–1873[9]
William F. Wentworth1867–1869[9]
Amos G. Throop1865–1867[9]
David Allen Gage1863–1865[9]
W.H. Rice1861–1863[9]
Charles H. Hunt1860–1861[9]
Alonzo Harvey City1858–1860[9]
Charles N. Holden1857–1858[9]
O.J. Rose1856–1857[9]
William F. DeWolf1855–1856[9]
Uriah P. Harris1854–1855[9]
Edward Manierre1850–1854[9]
William L. Church1848–1850[9]
Andrew Getzler1847–1848[9]
William L. Church1845–1847[9]
Walter S. Gurnee1843–1845[9]
Francis Cornwall Sherman1842–1843[9]
N.H. Bolles1841–1842[9]
Walter S. Gurnee1840[9]
N.H. Bolles1840[9]
George W. Dole1839–1840[9]
Hiram Pearson1837–1839[9]

References
  1. "Office of the City Treasurer, City of Chicago". chicagocitytreasurer.com.
  2. "Mayor Emanuel Announces Selection of Kurt Summers Jr. to Fill Remaining Term as City of Chicago Treasurer". City of Chicago.
  3. "Emanuel's treasurer appointment launches Summers into prominence". Chicago Tribune. December 12, 2014.
  4. "City Treasurer Neely stepping down". Chicago Tribune. October 20, 2014.
  5. City of Chicago's Treasurer's website http://www.chicagocitytreasurer.com/. Retrieved 9 December 2018. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. "The Honorable Judith C. Rice". The History Makers. Retrieved 26 April 2019.
  7. Hepp, Rick (April 17, 2000). "SANTOS RETURNS TO CITY TREASURER POST". chicagotribune.com. Archived from the original on 2020-02-18. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  8. Dukmasova, Maya (March 28, 2019). "More money no problems". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on 2019-03-29. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  9. "Centennial List of Mayors, City Clerks, City Attorneys, City Treasurers, and Aldermen, elected by the people of the city of Chicago, from the incorporation of the city on March 4, 1837 to March 4, 1937, arranged in alphabetical order, showing the years during which each official held office". Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2019.
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