Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, and Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington.
He was born in Nevis, in the then British West Indies.
He founded America's financial system as well as the New York Post.
On the finance side, he founded the Bank of North America, the US' first de facto central bank (opened in Philadelphia in 1782). Loans from France and the Netherlands were used to shore up the assets underlying the paper currency.
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