The mission of the New Jersey Department of the Treasury is to formulate and manage the state's budget, generate and collect revenues, disburse the appropriations used to operate New Jersey state government, manage the state's physical and financial assets, and provide statewide support services to state and local government agencies as well as the citizens of New Jersey. The department’s overriding goal is to ensure the most beneficial use of fiscal resources and revenues to meet critical needs, all within a policy framework set by the
governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
.
The Office of the State Treasurer is one of the oldest units of New Jersey state government, the first treasurer named in 1776, following adoption of the first
Constitution of New Jersey.
State Treasurer of New Jersey
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John Stevens, 1776 to 1779
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James Mott
James Mott (20 June 1788 – 26 January 1868) was a Quaker leader, teacher, merchant, and anti-slavery activist. He was married to suffragist leader Lucretia Mott.
Life and work
James was born in Cow Neck in North Hempstead on Long Island, t ...
, 1783 to 1799
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Stacy A. Paxon, 1845 to 1847
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David Naar, 1865
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Gershom Mott
Gershom Mott (April 7, 1822 – November 29, 1884) was a United States Army officer and a General in the Union Army, a commander in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War.
Early life
General Mott was born in Lamberton, New Jersey, a to ...
, 1875
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John J. Toffey, 1875 to 1891
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George B. Swain, 1894 to 1901
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Frank O. Briggs
Frank Obadiah Briggs (August 12, 1851May 8, 1913) was the Mayor of Trenton, New Jersey from 1899 to 1902. He was a United States senator from New Jersey from 1907 to 1913.
Biography
He was born on August 12, 1851 in Concord, New Hampshire to ...
, 1902 to 1907
Albert Middleton
Albert may refer to:
Companies
* Albert (supermarket), a supermarket chain in the Czech Republic
* Albert Heijn, a supermarket chain in the Netherlands
* Albert Market, a street market in The Gambia
* Albert Productions, a record label
* Alber ...
, 1928
*Robert C. Hendrickson
Robert Clymer Hendrickson (August 12, 1898December 7, 1964) was an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States senator from New Jersey.
Early life and education
Born in Woodbury, New Jersey, Hendrickson attended publ ...
, 1942 to January 1949
* John J. Dickerson, January 1949 to April 1949
*Walter Margetts Walter T. Margetts (January 23, 1904 – March 26, 1983) was the Treasurer
A treasurer is the person responsible for running the treasury of an organization. The significant core functions of a corporate treasurer include cash and liquidity mana ...
, April 1949 to January 1954
* Archibald S. Alexander, January 1954 to May 1957
*Aaron Neeld
According to Abrahamic religions, Aaron ''′aharon'', ar, هارون, Hārūn, Greek (Septuagint): Ἀαρών; often called Aaron the priest ()., group="note" ( or ; ''’Ahărōn'') was a prophet, a high priest, and the elder brother of ...
, May 1957 to July 1958
*John Kervick
John is a common English name and surname:
* John (given name)
* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
New Testament
Works
* Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John
* First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John
* Second E ...
, July 1958 to January 1970
*Katharine Elkus White
Katharine Elkus White (November 25, 1906 – April 24, 1985) was an American Democratic Party politician and diplomat, who served as Mayor of Red Bank, New Jersey from 1951 to 1956, chairwoman of the New Jersey Highway Authority (1955-1964), ...
, 1961
*William Marfuggi
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of Engl ...
, January 1973 to January 1974
*Richard Leone
Richard Carl Leone (April 30, 1940 - July 16, 2015) was an American Democratic Party politician who served as New Jersey State Treasurer from 1974 to 1977 and as Chairman of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from 1990 to 1994. Leone al ...
, January 1974 to December 1976
*Clifford Goldman Clifford may refer to:
People
*Clifford (name), an English given name and surname, includes a list of people with that name
*William Kingdon Clifford
*Baron Clifford
*Baron Clifford of Chudleigh
*Baron de Clifford
* Clifford baronets
*Clifford fam ...
, December 1976 to January 1982
*Kenneth Biederman
Kenneth is an English given name and surname. The name is an Anglicised form of two entirely different Gaelic personal names: ''Cainnech'' and '' Cináed''. The modern Gaelic form of ''Cainnech'' is ''Coinneach''; the name was derived from a byna ...
, January 1982 to March 1984
* Michael Horn, March 1984 to January 1986
* Feather O'Conner, January 1986 to January 1990
* Douglas Berman, January 1990 to January 1992
*Samuel Crane
Samuel Crane (1794 – November 13, 1858) was a businessman and political figure in Canada West.
Biography
Samuel Crane was born in Massachusetts in 1794 and had settled in Lower Canada by 1820. He became a partner in a forwarding business ...
, January 1992 to January 1994
* Brian Clymer, January 1994 to June 1997
* James DiEleuterio, July 1997 to August 1999
* Ronald Machold, August 1999 to January 2001
* Isabel Miranda, January 2001
* Peter Lawrance, February 2001 to January 2002
*John McCormac
John E. McCormac is an American Democratic Party politician, who is serving as the Mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. He served as State Treasurer of New Jersey for four years in the cabinets of former Governor of New Jersey James McGr ...
, January 2002 to January 2006
*Bradley Abelow
Bradley Ira Abelow (born June 9, 1958) is an American businessman and political leader who formerly served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jersey in the cabinet of Governor Jon Corzine. Prior to entering Governor Corzine's Cabinet as St ...
, January 2006 to August 2007
* Michellene Davis, September 2007 to January 2008
*David Rousseau, January 2008 to January 2010
* Andrew Sidamon-Eristoff, January 2010 to July 2015
* Robert Romano, July 2015 to November 2015
*Ford Scudder
Ford commonly refers to:
* Ford Motor Company, an automobile manufacturer founded by Henry Ford
* Ford (crossing), a shallow crossing on a river
Ford may also refer to:
Ford Motor Company
* Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company
* Ford F ...
, November 2015 to January 2018
* Liz Muoio, January 2018 to present
Commission on Science, Innovation and Technology
In August 2018, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislation re-establishing the former New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, which was originally created in 1985 and became non-operational in 2010. The revitalized commission was established in, but not of, the Department of the Treasury. He named Beth Simone Noveck
Beth Simone Noveck (born 1971) is New Jersey's first chief innovation officer, at Northeastern University where she directs the Burnes Center for Social Change, the Governance Lab and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance. She is ...
as chief innovation officer.
See also
* List of company registers
References
External links
New Jersey Department of the Treasury
Treasury
A treasury is either
*A government department related to finance and taxation, a finance ministry.
*A place or location where treasure, such as currency or precious items are kept. These can be state or royal property, church treasure or in p ...
Taxation in New Jersey
US state tax agencies
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