The United States Revenue Cutter Service was established by an Act of Congress on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine at the recommendation of the nation's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander H
USRC Massachusetts
USRC Eagle, which commanded the best wartime record of captures for any U.S. vessel during the Quasi-War
Painting of the capture of USRC Surveyor
USRC Harriet Lane
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.
United States Revenue Cutter Service
…by an Act of Congress (1 Stat. 145) on 4 August 1790 as the Revenue-Marine at the recommendation of the nation's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton. The federal government body was initially created to serve as an armed customs enforcement service. Over time, however, the service gradually gained…
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.