Alexander Hamilton
First treasury secretary
Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father of the United States, first Secretary of the Treasury, and primary author of the Federalist Papers.
He established the nation's financial system, including the national bank.
Hamilton died in 1804 after being shot by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.
A 2015 Broadway musical made him a figure of renewed popular interest.
Early republic's key architect
- FederalistConstitutional ratification supporter
- statesmanRespected political leader
- Constitutional ConventionDocument-drafting assembly of founders
- ratificationFormal approval by authority
Federalist Papers · James Madison · John Jay · George Washington · Thomas Jefferson · Aaron Burr · duel · New York
Aromatic culinary herb
- currencyMedium of exchange
- fiscalOf public revenue
- budgetPlan for spending
- revenueBusiness income total
bonds · tariffs · customs · excise · banknotes · coinage · appropriations · deficit
Provide money for
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- monetaryOf or about currency
- creditRecognition or payment deferral
debt · investment · market · trade · industrialization · tariff · securities · manufacturing
Founding Father
Early republic's key architect
- FederalistConstitutional ratification supporter
- statesmanRespected political leader
- Constitutional ConventionDocument-drafting assembly of founders
ratification · Federalist Papers · James Madison · John Jay · George Washington · Thomas Jefferson · Aaron Burr · duel · New York · lawyer
mint
Aromatic culinary herb
revenue · bonds · tariffs · customs · excise · banknotes · coinage · appropriations · deficit · surplus
finance
Provide money for
- bankingFinancial institution transactions
- capitalismPrivate profit-based economy
- monetaryOf or about currency
credit · debt · investment · market · trade · industrialization · tariff · securities · manufacturing · mercantilism
- Early American LiteratureBenjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Irving, Common Sense
- Early RepublicGeorge Washington, Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Constitutional Convention
- FederalistsJohn Adams, Federalist Papers, John Jay, John Marshall, George Washington
- Founding FathersGeorge Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, James Madison
- Statesmenstatesmen, Benjamin Franklin, politicians, Thomas Jefferson, ministers
- Treasury SecretariesJanet Yellen, John Snow
Alexander HamiltonThomas Jefferson
Third American president
Aaron Burr · Democratic-Republicans · James Madison · Patrick Henry · agrarianism
Alexander HamiltonThomas Jefferson
Third American president
landed aristocracy · George Washington · James Madison · old money · landed gentry
Hamilton, Alexander, Alexandria, Alejandro, Alexander the Great