e.What are at least 5 notable facts about your person?

Birth Date & Place: January 11, 1755 or 1757 in the Island of Nevis, Virgin Islands

Schooling: Basic education from Presbyterian clergymen
Barber's Academy in Elizabethtown, N.J.
King's College in New York City (now Columbia University)

Lived: St. Croix, Virgin Islands (1766)
Elizabethtown, N.J. with William Livingston (1772)
The Grange in Manhattan (1802)

Death: July 11, 1804 —defeated by Aaron Burr in a duel. Died July 12, 1804; buried in the Trinity Churchyard in New York City

Achievements

1784: Founded the Bank of New York

1789: Became the first Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington.

Established the nation's credit with the Report on the Public Credit, the Report on the National Cr

Just the Facts

1782-1783: Elected to the Continental Congress

1783: Began a non-military career and was admitted into the Bar after three months of intensive study.

1787: Elected to the Continental Congress and, in 1789, became the first Secretary of the Treasury and proposed:

• Establishment of a national bank
• Funding of the national debt
• Assumption of the states' war debts.

He believed that a minimal national debt was a good thing.

His portrait is on the $10 bill.