State Library
State House, 2nd floor
Providence, RI 02903
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Monday-Friday
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
List of persons who have held the office of Treasurer and General Treasurer from 1640 to the present.
Before the Parliamentary Patent Treasurers
Portsmouth and Newport
| William Balston and Robert Jeoffreys | March 12, 1640 - March 16, 1641 |
| Robert Jeoffreys | March 16, 1641 - March 16, 1642 |
Newport
| Robert Jeoffreys | March 16, 1641 - March 16, 1644 |
Portsmouth
| Thomas Spicer | March 16, 1642 - ???? |
Newport
| Jeremy Clarke | March 13, 1644 - March 19, 1647 |
| Jeremy Clarke, of Newport | May 19, 1647 - May 22, 1649 |
| John Clarke, of Newport | May 22, 1649 - the separation |
| Randall Holden, of Warwick | May 16, 1652 - May ??, 1654 |
| John Coggeshall, of Newport | May 17, 1653 - May 16, 1654 |
| John Coggeshall, of Newport | May 1654 - September 12, 1654 |
| Richard Burden, of Portsmouth | September 12, 1654 - May 22, 1655 |
| John Sanford, of Portsmouth | May 22, 1655 - May 21, 1661 |
| John Sanford, of Portsmouth | November 26, 1663 - May 1664 |
| John Coggeshall, of Newport | 1664 - 1672 |
| Peter Easton, of Newport | 1672 - 1677 |
| Thomas Ward, of Newport | 1677 - 1678 |
| Peleg Sanford, of Newport | 1678 - 1681 |
| Weston Clarke, of Newport | 1681 - 1685 |
| 1John Woodman, of Newport | 1685 - 1686 |
| John Holmes, of Newport | February 1690 - May 1703 |
| William Hiscock, of Newport | 1703 - 1705 |
| Nathaniel Sheffield, of Newport | 1705 - 1708 |
| John Holmes, of Newport | 1708 - 1709 |
| Edward Thurston, of Newport | 1709 - 1714 |
| Joseph Borden, of Portsmouth | 1714 - 1730 |
| Abraham Borden, of Newport | 1730 - 1733 |
| Gideon Wanton, of Newport | 1733 - 1743 |
| John Gardner, of Newport | 1743 - 1748 |
| Thomas Richardson, of Newport | 1748 - 1761 |
| 2Joseph Clarke, of Newport | 1761 - 1792 |
| Henry Sherburne, of Newport | October 1792 - May 1808 |
| Constant Taber, of Newport | 1808 - 1811 |
| William Ennis, of Newport | 1811 - 1817 |
| Thomas G. Pitman, of Newport | 1817 - 1839 |
| John Sterne, of Newpot | 1839 - 1840 |
| Stephen Cahoone, of Newport | 1840 - 1843 |
| Stephen Cahoone, of Newport | 1843 - 1851 | |
| Edwin Wilbur, of Newport | 1851 - 1854 | |
| Samuel B. Vernon, of Newport | 1854 - 1855 | |
| Samuel A. Parker, of Newport | 1855-1866 | |
| George W. Tew, of Newport | May, 1866 - March, 1868 | |
| 3Samuel A. Parker, of Newport | March 1868 - February 4, 1872 | |
| Samuel Clark, of Lincoln | February 15, 1872 - 1887 | |
| John G. Perry, of So. Kingstown | 1887 - 1888 | |
| Samuel Clark, of Lincoln | 1888-1890 | |
| John G. Perry, of South Kingstown | 1890-1891 | |
| 4Samuel Clark, of Lincoln | 1891-December 27, 1897 | |
| Clinton D. Sellew, of Providence | December 28, 1897 - May 31, 1898 | |
| 5Walter A. Read, of Glocester | 1898 - 1918 | [R] |
| 6Richard W. Jennings, of Cranston | 1918 - 1923 | [R] |
| Adolphus C. Knowles, of Jamestown | 1923 - 1925 | [R] |
| 6Richard W. Jennings, of Cranston | 1925 - 1927 | [R] |
| George C. Clark, of Providence | 1927 - 1933 | [R] |
| 7Antonio Prince, of Woonsocket | 1933 - 1936 | [D] |
| 8Percival de St. Aubin, of Providence | 1936 - 1937 | [R] |
| Henri A. Roberge, of Woonsocket | 1937 - 1939 | [D] |
| Thomas P. Hazard, of So. Kingstown | 1939 - 1941 | [R] |
| Russell H. Handy, of Lincoln | 1941 - 1949 | [D] |
| 9Raymond Hawksley, of E. Providence | 1949 - 1977 | [D] |
| Anthony J. Solomon, of Providence | 1977 - 1985 | [D] |
| Roger Begin, of Woonsocket | 1985 - 1989 | [D] |
| Anthony J. Solomon, of Providence | 1989 - 1993 | [D] |
| Nancy J. Mayer, of Bristol | 1993 - 1999 | [R] |
| Paul J. Tavares, of East Providence | 1999 - 2007 | [D] |
| Frank T. Caprio, of Providence | 2007 - 2011 | [D] |
| Gina Raimondo, of Providence | 2011 - Present | [D] |
1. Royal Charter suspended. [Top]
5. Died in office; December 14, 1918, having been re-elected November 5, 1918. [Top]
6. Appointed by the Governor, December 14, 1918. Qualified as General Treasurer, December 16, 1918. Election in Grand Committee, January 7, 1919. Re-elected at the general election, November 2, 1920 and November 4, 1924. [Top]
7. Resigned (appointed Postmaster of Woonsocket on May 22, 1936; qualified July 1, 1936. [Top]
8. Appointed by the Governor on July 1, 1936; qualified as General Treasurer on July 2, 1936. [Top]
9.Longest term of any General Treasurer 1842 - present; 28 years. [Top]