United States Secretary of the Treasury

Current Event Paper / Summary of Price Pricy Scandal Analysis by Chase, Chikasha P. Writing:2017September23 There are a lot of hard working tax payer’s money being use for absolutely nothing. Just last Friday, Health and Human Services secretary Tom Price put in a resignation letter and resign after IG (Inspector General) got involved when he chose to use private planes to travel around the country at a cost of what appears to be $300,000. Why in the world he didn’t use his own money or…

The Executive Branch contains the President and his Cabinet. The President acts as Head of State, which is the Chief Representative of the United States. The Cabinet is appointed by the President and carries out the duties of the Executive office under the authority of the President. There are multiple government agency’s that the president appoints the heads of, including the CIA, EPA and many more, the President also appoints the head of over 50 independent government agencies. The…

This history study will define the important influence of Alexander Hamilton in the formation of the First Bank of the United States (FBUS) in the Washington Administration. Hamilton sought to finance the national debt through the FBUS, which laid the foundation for a federalized system of financing the government. Hamilton served as the Secretary of the Treasury for President Washington from 1789 to 1795. In this capacity Hamilton utilized the FBUS to centralize the government’s financial…

Alexander Hamilton, one the founding fathers and the first secretary of the treasury was born in the West Indies and traveled to the colonies as a teenager. His mother Rachel Faucette, died when Alexander was just eleven years old from a fever they both had. As for his father, James Hamilton left when Alexander was young. After the death of his mother, his hometown worked together to raise funds for him to get the colonies, starting with his former boss, Nicholas Cruger, who was sending him to…

innovation was the creation of war bonds. During WWII, war bonds were created/advertised, used to produce war supplies, and then paid back after the war. War bonds existed before WWII, but it was Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. who began planning a defense bond program for the United States. He recruited political scientist Peter Odegard to help him create a program. They developed a voluntary loan system that was commonly called “defense bonds.” The idea was that citizens could…

First of all, both were Founding Fathers and came from families that had deep roots back in colonial America. They both recognized the need for unity in the New England colonies, and later states as well. John Adams recommended George Washington as the leader for the Continental Army, and George Washington chose John Adams as his Vice President. Both were also extremely isolated, causing them to ignore issues they should not have, which led…

During President Clintons first term as President he devised a plan to decrease the federal deficits of the United States by $500 billion dollars over the span of five years (Smith, Lecture Notes, week 9). He also proposed a tax cut for the middle class but later changed his position in order to ensure that the budget plan would pass Congress. This package would have allowed $16 billion dollars to go towards creating jobs which was one of Bill Clinton’s agendas when he entered office. President…

George Washington as we all know was the very first President of the United States of America. Along with the Secretary of Treasury who was Alexander Hamilton and John Adams as Vice President. George Washington was a Federalist so he had strong beliefs in having a strong government along with a strong executive branch. Washington had to goal when becoming president, the first was to translate the US Constitution and translate it into an actual form of government. Then in order to form the…

Roberts unsuccessfully argues that Hamilton destabilized financial markets and that his policies were politically unpopular. Roberts states that, “the first decade under the new constitution was not a period of strong economic growth.” (489) He argues that the success of Hamilton’s financial program was largely dependent upon the assistance from European investments. Roberts’ argument…

moved from Pennsylvania. He was the oldest of ten children and his father always groomed him to take over the family farm but he proved too sickly and weak to handle the strenuous work. In 1806, his family moved to Tennessee but he would return to the state of his birth in order to pursue his education. He graduated from the University of North Carolina with honors on 1818. He pursued a career in law under a leading Nashville attorney Felix…