Albert Gallatin
| Albert Gallatin | |
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| United States Minister to the United Kingdom | |
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In office September 1, 1826 – October 4, 1827 |
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| President | John Quincy Adams |
| Preceded by | Rufus King |
| Succeeded by | James Barbour |
| United States Minister to France | |
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In office July 16, 1816 – May 16, 1823 |
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| President |
James Madison James Monroe |
| Preceded by | William H. Crawford |
| Succeeded by | James Brown |
| 4th United States Secretary of the Treasury | |
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In office May 14, 1801 – February 8, 1814 |
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| President |
Thomas Jefferson James Madison |
| Preceded by | Samuel Dexter |
| Succeeded by | George W. Campbell |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th district |
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In office March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1801 |
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| Preceded by | William Findley |
| Succeeded by | William Hoge |
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United States Senator from Pennsylvania |
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In office December 2, 1793 – February 28, 1794 |
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| Preceded by | William Maclay |
| Succeeded by | James Ross |
| Personal details | |
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Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin January 29, 1761 Geneva, Republic of Geneva (now Switzerland) |
| Died | August 12, 1849 (aged 88) Astoria, New York, U.S. (now New York City) |
| Resting place | Trinity Church Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Sophia Allegre (1789–1790) Hannah Nicholson (1793–1849) |
| Alma mater | University of Geneva |
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Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin (January 29, 1761 – August 12, 1849) was a Swiss-American politician, diplomat, ethnologist and linguist. He served as a Representative, Senator, United States Ambassador and was the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury. In 1831, he helped found the University of the City of New York, now New York University.
Born in Geneva in present-day Switzerland (which was unified in 1815), Gallatin immigrated to America in the 1780s and was naturalized in Morgantown, Virginia. He ultimately settled in western Pennsylvania. He was politically active against the Federalist Party program and was elected to the United States Senate in 1793. However, he was removed from office by a 14–12 party-line vote after a protest raised by his opponents suggested he did not meet the required nine years of citizenship.
Two years later, he was elected to the House of Representatives and served in the fourth through sixth Congresses. He was an important member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, its chief spokesman on financial matters, and led opposition to many of the policy proposals of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. He also helped found the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee) and often engineered withholding of finances by the House as a method of overriding executive actions to which he objected.
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