Kentucky State Treasurer

Kentucky Treasurer
General information
Office Type:	Partisan
Office website:	Official Link
Term limits:	2 consecutive terms
Structure
Length of term:	4 years
Authority:	Kentucky Constitution, Executive Department Article, Section 91
Selection Method:	Elected
Current Officeholder
Name:	Todd Hollenbach
Officeholder Party:	Democratic
Assumed office:	January 2008
Compensation:	$113,615
Elections
Next election:	November 2015
Last election:	November 8, 2011
Other Kentucky Executive Offices
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The Treasurer of the State of Kentucky is an elected executive official in the Kentucky state government. The treasurer is the chief financial officer of the government of Kentucky, responsible for maintaining the state funds and acting as the state's bank.

Current officeholder

The current treasurer of Kentucky is Todd Hollenbach (D). He is the 37th state treasurer, was elected in 2007 and re-elected in 2011.

Authority

The office of state treasurer is established in the Executive Department Article of the Kentucky Constitution.

Executive Department Article, Section 91:

A Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Labor and Statistics, Secretary of State, and Attorney-General, shall be elected by the qualified voters of the State at the same time the Governor and Lieutenant Governor are elected, for the term of four years...

Qualifications

Executive Department Article, Section 91 of the Kentucky Constitution establishes the qualifications of the office:

...each of whom shall be at least thirty years of age at the time of his election, and shall have been a resident citizen of the State at least two years next before his election.

• at least 30 years old at time of election
• resident of Kentucky for at least two years

Elections

Up until 1851, the governor appointed the Treasurer with the advice and consent of the Kentucky State Legislature. The 1850 Constitution made the treasurer an elected office serving a two-year term. In 1891 this was extended to four-years.

For the state of Kentucky, treasurer election years include 2007, 2011, 2015, 2019. According to state law, the inauguration always takes place the first Monday in January following their election.

Term limits

Kentucky state treasurers are limited to serving two four-year terms.

Duties

The treasurer's duties include:

• Act as head of the treasury KRS 041.020
• Create and manage the state's depository KRS 041-070
• Make record of all monies due and payable to the state KRS 041-100
• Process warrants from the Finance and Administration Cabinet KRS 041-150
• Make payments on behalf of the state KRS 041-160
• Make an annual report KRS 041-340

Divisions

Click here to view a larger-scale image of the Kentucky State Treasurer's office Organizational Chart as of December 8, 2011.

The Treasury Department is divided into three main divisions - General Administration & Support, Disbursements and Accounting, and Unclaimed Property.

Division of General Administration & Support

Contact General Administration & Support
Maurice McDaniel, Director Email: Maurice.McDaniel@ky.gov

Division of Disbursements & Accounting

Contact Disbursements & Accounting
Thomas Scally, Director Email: Tom.Scally@ky.gov

Division of Unclaimed Property

The Division of Unclaimed Property works to find taxpayers who are owed money from the unclaimed property fund. This usually consists of payroll checks, unclaimed safety deposit boxes and vendor checks.

Contact Unclaimed Property
Brenda Sweatt, Director Email: Brenda.Sweatt@ky.gov Phone: 1-800-465-4722

Compensation

See also: Compensation of state executive officers

In 2012, the Kentucky State Treasurer was paid an estimated $113,615. This figure comes from the Council of State Governments.

Former officeholders

From 1792 to 1992, there were 33 Kentucky State Treasurers. Three of them served more than one non-consecutive term. The constitutional prohibition against succeeding oneself was eliminated in 1992 in exchange for a two term limit.

Click "show" for former officeholders.

#	Name	Took office	Left office	Party
1	John Logan	1792	1807
2	David Logan	1807	1808
3	John P. Thomas	1808	1818
4	Samuel South	1818	1824
5	James Davidson	1824	1849
6	Richard Curd Wintersmith	1849	1857
7	James William Garrard	1847	1865
8	Mason Brown	1865	1867
9	James William Tate	1867	1888
10	Steven G. Sharpe	1888	1890
11	Henry S. Hale	1890	1895
12	George W. Long	1896	1900	Republican
13	Walter R. Day	1900	Unseated	Republican
14	Samuel Wilbur Hager	1900	1904	Democratic
15	Henry M. Bosworth	1904	1908
16	Edwin Farley	1908	1912	Republican
17	Thomas S. Rhea	1912	1916
18	Sherman Goodpaster	1916	1920
19	James A. Wallace	1920	1924
20	Edward Blan Dishman	1924	1928
21	Emma Guy Cromwell	1928	1932
22	Elam Huddleston	1932	1936
23	John E. Buckingham	1936	1940
24	Ernest Shannon	1940	1944
25	Thomas W. Vinson	1944	1948
26	Edward Seiller	1948	1949
27	Pearl Frances Runyon	1949	1956
28	Henry Carter	1956	1960
29	Thelma Stovall	1960	1964	Democrat
30	Emerson "Doc" Beauchamp	1964	1968
31	Thelma Stovall	1968	1972	Democrat
32	Drexell R. "Drex" Davis	1972	1976
33	Frances Jones Mills	1976	1980	Democrat
34	Drexell R. "Drex" Davis	1980	1984
35	Frances Jones Mills	1984	1988	Democrat
36	Robert Mead	1988	1992
37	Frances Jones Mills	1992	1996	Democrat

Contact Information

Kentucky State Treasurer's Office
1050 US Highway 127 South, Suite 100
Frankfort, Kentucky 40601

Email: treasury.web@ky.gov
Phone: (502) 564-4722
Fax: (502) 564-6545

See also

• Treasurer
• Todd Hollenbach

Elections

• Kentucky state executive official elections, 2011

External links

Suggest a link

• Kentucky Treasurer Election, 2011 (Wikipedia)

• Kentucky State Treasurer's Office