The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank Group today ...

But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other projects, would generate controversy. Alexander hamilton's statue in front of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C. 1980.

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the World Bank in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank today. As the only World Bank shareholder that retains veto ...