But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other ... Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary, he was already proposing a national equivalent.

It's true that the First National Bank was dominated by ... President James Madison authorized the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. Source: Federal Reserve of Philadelphia Foreign ...

In the early 1900s, Maggie made a historical stride when she chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank and became the first African American woman to open a bank in the United States and serve as ...