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Director of the United States Mint

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in 2011. Richard A. Peterson succeeded Moy. Peterson served between January 2011 and March 2017. The longest serving director was Nellie Ross. Ross, who had earlier been the first female governor in American history while serving the state of Wyoming, was director from 1933 until 1953.
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to become the Mint's 39th director and was given the temporary title of principal deputy director. However, the nomination was never confirmed by the Senate. Jeppson stepped down as principal deputy director in January 2017, then replaced by acting principal deputy director David Motl.
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serves as the acting director. Until the appointment of Ryder as director, the Mint had been without an official director since the resignation of
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specified a five-year term for directors. The director operates with general directions provided by the
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When the position of the director is vacant, the senior career (non-political) official of
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The office of director has existed since the creation of the Mint by the
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In July 2015, Matthew Rhett Jeppson was nominated by President
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is the chief officer of the United States Mint. It is a
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United States Mint

Ventris Gibson
President of the United States
Term length
David Rittenhouse

United States Mint
the United States Mint
presidential appointment
Senate confirmation
Ventris Gibson
the mint
Edmund C. Moy
Barack Obama
Coinage Act of 1792
Coinage Act of 1873
United States Secretary of the Treasury

David Rittenhouse
Washington

Henry William de Saussure

Elias Boudinot

Robert Patterson
Jefferson

Samuel Moore

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