“The trust is proud to help renovate the First Bank and create a museum about the early American economy and the realization of Alexander Hamilton’s vision for an economically unified nation ...

The First Bank of the United ... Congress chartered the bank for 20 years starting in 1791, following a proposal from Treasury Department Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton’s goal in ...

Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary ... Jackson's acting secretary of state, James Alexander Hamilton, opposed the very Bank his father had created. And this time there ...