Henry M Paulson JrHenry M. Paulson served under President George W. Bush as the seventy-fourth secretary of the Treasury from June 2006 until January 2009. Before coming to the Treasury, he had been chairman and chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs since th firm's initial public offering in 1999. He joined the Goldman Sachs Chicago office in 1974 and steadily rose through the ranks. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as staff assistant to the president from 1972 to 1973, and as staff assistant to the assistant secretary of defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972. He graduated from Dartmouth in 1968, where he majored in English, was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was an All Ivy, All East football player. He received an MBA from Harvard in 1970. Read More Read Less