Comptroller of the Treasury
The Comptroller of the Treasury was an official of the United States Department of the Treasury from 1789 to 1817. According to section III of the Act of Congress establishing the Treasury Department, it is the comptroller's duty to
The first person to hold this office was Nicholas Eveleigh ref>/Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States United States. Vol. 20. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1941, p. V. [Heidler, David S. and Jeanne T. Washington’s Circle: The Creation of the President. New York: Random House, 2015.]
. It was also held for a time by Gabriel Duvall, who would later serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. The office was later several times renamed. It was the First Comptroller of the Treasury, the Agent of the Treasury, and Solicitor of the Treasury, and is now the Office of the General Counsel.
