Paymaster-General of the United States Army

Not to be confused with His Majesty's Paymaster General, a ministerial position in the Cabinet Office of the United Kingdom..

The Paymaster-General of the United States Army was a general officer who was responsible for the Pay Department of the U.S. Army.

History

The office of the Paymaster General was created through a resolution of the Continental Congress on 16 June 1775, which established "That there be one Paymaster General, and a Deputy under him, for the Army, in a separate department; that the pay for the Paymaster General himself be one hundred dollars per month, and for the Deputy Paymaster under him, fifty dollars per month."^[1]

The position was abolished by consolidation of the Pay Department with the Quartermaster Department and the Subsistence Department to form the Quartermaster Corps under provisions of the army appropriation act for FY 1913 (37 Stat. 591), August 24, 1912.^[2]

Office Holders

No.	Name	Photo	Term began	Term ended	Notes
1	James Warren		27 July 1775[3]	19 April 1776	Office established by resolution of the Continental Congress on June 16, 1775
2	William Palfrey		27 April 1776[4]	December 1780	Died in office
3	John Pierce Jr.		17 January 1781	1 August 1788	Died in office
4	Joseph Howell Jr.		28 August 1788	8 May 1792
5	Caleb Swan		8 May 1792	30 June 1808
6	Robert Brent		30 June 1808	28 August 1819
7	Nathaniel Towson		28 August 1819[5]	1 June 1821
8	Daniel Parker		1 June 1821	8 May 1822
9	Nathaniel Towson		8 May 1822	20 July 1854	Died in office
10	Benjamin Larned		July 1854	6 September 1862	Died in office
11	Timothy Andrews		6 September 1862[6]	29 November 1864
12	Benjamin Brice		29 November 1864 [7]	22 February 1869[8]
13	Benjamin Alvord		1 January 1872[9]	8 June 1880[10]
14	Nathan W. Brown		8 June 1880[10]	6 February 1882
15	William B. Rochester		17 February 1882	15 February 1890
16	William Smith		10 March 1890	25 March 1895[11]
17	Thaddeus H. Stanton		26 March 1895[12]	30 January 1899
18	Asa B. Carey		30 January 1899[13][14]	11 July 1899
19	Alfred E. Bates		12 July 1899[15]	22 January 1904
20	Francis S. Dodge		23 January 1904[16]	11 September 1906
21	Culver C. Sniffen		11 September 1906 [17][18]	1 January 1908
22	Charles H. Whipple		1 January 1908[19]	15 February 1912
23	George R. Smith		16 February 1912[20]	24 August 1912[21]	Position abolished when the Pay Department was merged with the Quartermaster and Subsistence Departments to form the Quartermaster Corps.