Director of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing explained

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 is Patricia "Patty" S. Collins.^[1]

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

	Image	Name	Assumed office	Left office	President appointed by
1		Spencer M. Clark	1862	1868	Abraham Lincoln
2		George B. McCartee	1869	1876	Ulysses S. Grant
3		Henry C. Jewell	1876	1877	Ulysses S. Grant
4		Edward McPherson	1877	1878	Rutherford B. Hayes
5		O. H. Irish	1878	1883	Rutherford B. Hayes
6		Truman N. Burrill	1883	1885	Chester A. Arthur
7		Edward O. Graves	1885	1889	Grover Cleveland
8		William Morton Meredith	1889	1893	Benjamin Harrison
9		Claude M. Johnson	1893	1900	Grover Cleveland
10		William Morton Meredith	1900	1906	William McKinley
11		Thomas J. Sullivan	1906	1908	Theodore Roosevelt
12		Joseph E. Ralph	1908	1917	Theodore Roosevelt
13		James L. Wilmeth	1917	1922	Woodrow Wilson
14		Louis A. Hill	1922	1924	Warren G. Harding
15		Wallace W. Kirby	1924	1924	Calvin Coolidge
16		Alvin W. Hall	1924	1954	Calvin Coolidge
17		Henry J. Holtzclaw	1954	1967	Dwight D. Eisenhower
18		James A. Conlon	1967	1977	Lyndon B. Johnson
19		Seymour Berry	1977	1979	Jimmy Carter
20		Harry R. Clements	1979	1982	Jimmy Carter
21		Robert J. Leuver	1983	1988	Ronald Reagan
22		Peter H. Daly	1988	1995	Ronald Reagan
23		Larry E. Rolufs	1995	1997	Bill Clinton
24		Thomas A. Ferguson	1998	2006	Bill Clinton
25		Larry R. Felix	2006	2015	George W. Bush
26		Leonard R. Olijar	2015	2023^[2]	Barack Obama
27		Patricia S. Collins	2024	present	Joe Biden

Source^[3]

References

1. Federal News Network, April 1, 2024. New director takes helm at Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by Tom Temin.
2. https://www.bep.gov/about-bep/organization/past-bep-directors
3. http://www.moneyfactory.gov/bepdirectors.html Directors from BEP website

External links

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