Lords Commissioners of the Treasury concomitant, so much so that the Prime Minister's official residence, 10 Downing Street, is in fact the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, which title is named on the letter box. Salisbury, as a marquess of vast independent wealth, had no use of an official residence, instead living in his grander town house at 20 Arlington Street in St James's, and could instead bestow it as a perquisite to other ministers, along with the First Lordship itself. Other positions have been linked to the Prime Ministership as well. Continuously since 1968, when the position was created by
Register of the Treasury in the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Wilson appointed an African-American, Adam E. Patterson, for the position of Register of the Treasury. Southern senators, like Hoke Smith, James K. Vardaman, and Ben Tillman, were opposed to Patterson because of his race. They said they were opposed to any African-American for an office which would put them over Caucasian women. Patterson quickly withdrew his name, and, therefore, was unconfirmed. Wilson appointed a white man, Gabe E. Parker, to the Register of Treasury. Parker was the first white man to hold the position in fifteen years. The Treasury had eighteen Registers between 1861