Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Seal of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

The Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is the head of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing within the United States Department of the Treasury. The current Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is Tryst R. Hensell.

The position has existed since 1862, when the United States Congress authorized the Treasury Department to begin printing paper money. Until the 1890s, the office was commonly known as Chief of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.

The Director operates with general directions provided by the United States Secretary of the Treasury.

List of Directors of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing

Name	Assumed Office	Left Office	President Appointed By
Spencer M. Clark	1862	1868	Abraham Lincoln
George B. McCartee	1869	1876	Ulysses S. Grant
Henry C. Jewell	1876	1877	Ulysses S. Grant
Edward McPherson	1877	1878	Rutherford B. Hayes
O. H. Irish	1878	1883	Rutherford B. Hayes
Truman N. Burrill	1883	1885	Chester A. Arthur
Edward O. Graves	1885	1889	Grover Cleveland
William Morton Meredith	1889	1893	Benjamin Harrison
Claude M. Johnson	1893	1900	Grover Cleveland
William Morton Meredith	1900	1906	William McKinley
Thomas J. Sullivan	1906	1908	Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph E. Ralph	1908	1917	Theodore Roosevelt
James L. Wilmeth	1917	1922	Woodrow Wilson
Louis A. Hill	1922	1924	Warren G. Harding
Wallace W. Kirby	1924	1924	Calvin Coolidge
Alvin W. Hall	1924	1954	Calvin Coolidge
Henry J. Holtzclaw	1954	1967	Dwight D. Eisenhower
James A. Conlon	1967	1977	Lyndon B. Johnson
Seymour Berry	1977	1979	Jimmy Carter
Harry R. Clements	1979	1982	Jimmy Carter
Robert J. Leuver	1983	1988	Ronald Reagan
Peter H. Daly	1988	1995	Ronald Reagan
Larry E. Rolufs	1995	1997	Bill Clinton
Thomas A. Ferguson	1998	2006	Bill Clinton
Larry R. Felix	2006	2015	George W. Bush
Leonard R. Olijar	2015	Present	Barack H. Obama II

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