City Treasurer of Chicago

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The city treasurer of Chicago is an elected official of the City of Chicago.

Term length4 years
Websitechicagocitytreasurer.com
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City Treasurer of Chicago
since May 20, 2019
Term length4 years
Websitechicagocitytreasurer.com
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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 the mayor, beating 47th Ward Alderperson Ameya Pawar. She is the fourth African American woman to hold the 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

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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]
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