The State Treasurer's Office is responsible for several administrative and service duties, in accordance with Vermont Statutes. These include: investing state funds; issuing state bonds; serving as the central bank for state agencies; managing the state's cash balances, check processing and reconciliation; safeguarding and returning unclaimed or abandoned financial property; and administering three major pension plans for public employees. The treasurer is fifth (behind the lieutenant governor, speaker of the House of Representatives, president pro tempore of the Senate, and secretary of state, respectively) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Vermont.
The incumbent is Mike Pieciak who assumed in the office in January 2023. He succeeded Beth Pearce, who was appointed to the office in January, 2011 when Jeb Spaulding resigned to become Secretary of Administration in the cabinet of Governor Peter Shumlin, and was subsequently elected and re-elected. Pearce had been Spaulding's deputy.Press Release, Governor-Elect Shumlin Appoints Beth Pearce as Vermont’s Next State Treasurer , by Shumlin for Governor Campaign, December 20, 2010
List of Vermont state treasurers (1778–present) Image Name Term of office Political party Ira Allen 1778–1786 No party affiliation Samuel Mattocks 1786–1800 No party affiliation Benjamin Swan 1800–1833 Federalist, Independent Augustine Clarke 1833–1837 Anti-Masonic Allen Wardner 1837–1838 Whig Henry Fisk Janes 1838–1841 Whig John Spaulding 1841–1846 Whig Elisha P. Jewett 1846–1847 Whig George Howes 1847–1853 Whig John A. Page 1853–1854 Democratic Henry M. Bates 1854–1860 Republican John B. Page 1860–1866 Republican John A. Page 1866–1882 Republican William H. Dubois 1882–1890 Republican Henry F. Field 1890–1898 Republican John L. Bacon 1898–1906 Republican Edward H. Deavitt 1906–1915 Republican Walter F. Scott 1915–1923 Republican Thomas H. Cave 1923–1943 Republican Levi R. Kelley 1943–1949 Republican George H. Amidon 1949–1965 Republican Peter J. Hincks 1965–1968 Democratic Madelyn Davidson 1968–1969 Democratic Frank H. Davis 1969–1975 Republican Stella B. Hackel 1975–1977 Democratic Emory A. Hebard 1977–1989 Republican Paul W. Ruse Jr. 1989–1995 Democratic James H. Douglas 1995–2003 Republican George B. "Jeb" Spaulding 2003–2011 Democratic Beth Pearce 2011–2023 Democratic Mike Pieciak2023–present DemocraticEarly History of Vermont, by LaFayette Wilbur, Volume 3, 1902, page 380, published by Office of the Vermont Secretary of State, Archives and Records Administration, accessed November 26, 2011
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