USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, who fought in the American Revolutionary War, helped draft the Constitution, and served as the first secretary of the treasury.

Detailed explanation-2: -Congress of the Confederation He also accepted an offer from Robert Morris to become receiver of continental taxes for the State of New York. Hamilton was appointed in July 1782 to the Congress of the Confederation as a New York representative for the term beginning in November 1782.

Detailed explanation-3: -Washington named Thomas Jefferson as his Secretary of State, Henry Knox as his Secretary of War, and Hamilton as his Secretary of the Treasury.

Detailed explanation-4: -At the inauguration of the constitutional government in 1789 Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), George Washington’s former military aide and a renowned financier, was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury and thus he became the architect of the structure of the Department.

Detailed explanation-5: -Alexander Hamilton was a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), a major author of the Federalist papers, and the first secretary of the treasury of the United States (1789–95).