George Evan Roberts (August 19, 1857 – June 6, 1948) was Director of the United States Mint from 1898 to 1907, and again from 1910 to 1914.

[1] He was raised in three areas of Iowa, Dubuque County, Manchester, and Fort Dodge.

[1] Both of these works were important parts of the campaign that defeated William Jennings Bryan in the 1896 U.S. presidential election.

[1] In 1902, Roberts authored the Iowa Republican Party's platform on tariffs, which criticized protectionism and supported reciprocity.

[1] In 1898, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Lyman J. Gage recommended to U.S. president William McKinley that he appoint Roberts Director of the United States Mint, and Roberts held that office for nearly a decade, February 1898 to July 1907.