1802 LS- US Sec. Treasury Albert Gallatin as Secretary
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1 pg. letter, August 21, 1802, Treasury Dept. (Washington D.C.) signed by Albert Gallatin as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. Besides Alexander Hamilton, Gallatin if probably the most famous of all U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury. Comes with an 1862 engraving of Gallatin by Johnson, Fry, & Co. from New York. In this letter addressed to a U.S. Cashier in Baltimore, Gallatin writes regarding bill by a John Sherlock on an Amsterdam firm for 10,000 Guilders, and a receipt drawn by Sherlock for $4,100 being the cost (of the 10,000 transaction?). Gallatin permits the cashier to draw upon the U.S. Treasurer to cover the cost of the $4,100. Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (1761–1849) was born in Geneva, Switzerland and came to American in the 1780s. He was elected to the U.S. Senator in 1793, but removed by a Senate party vote when they opposition Senators said he had not lived in the U.S. for the requisite 9 years before becoming a Senator (it was untrue, he had even served at a Garrison in Maine as early as 1780). He even taught French at Harvard in 1782. He was elected as a U.S. Congressman in 1795 and served until 1801. While in Congress, he became House Majority Leader and helped found what is now the "House Ways and Means Committee." He served as U.S. Secretary of Treasury from 1801-13, under Presidents Jefferson and Madison, undoing
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