The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United S
3rd Street façade
John Lewis Krimmel, Winter Scene in Philadelphia (ca.1813)
Bank of the United States check signed by John Jacob Astor in 1792
Alexander Hamilton
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Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington.
First Bank of the United States
…the United States was part of a three-part expansion of federal fiscal and monetary power, along with a federal mint and excise taxes, championed by Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury. Hamilton believed a national bank was necessary to stabilize and improve the nation's credit, and to improve handling…
Posthumous portrait by John Trumbull, 1806, from a life bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794
Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery, a portrait by Alonzo Chappel
Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787
A statue of Hamilton on the south patio of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.