A Note From Bob
The most improbable Founding Father
Wednesday, and we stay in the founding era. Few Americans ever packed more into one lifetime than Alexander Hamilton. An orphan from the Caribbean who talked his way into King's College, a battlefield aide to General Washington, the author of most of the Federalist Papers, and the man who built the young nation's finances as its first Treasury Secretary. He created much of the system we still bank on, and he did it all before he turned fifty. Today's featured quiz puts that remarkable run to the test. Pour the coffee.
Trivia Question of the Day
When George Washington assembled his first cabinet in 1789, he chose Alexander Hamilton to lead a brand new department in charge of the nation's money, its debts, and its credit. Hamilton was the first person ever to hold that office. What was its title?
The answer is at the bottom of this email.
Today's Featured Quiz
Alexander Hamilton
Thirteen questions on the most improbable of the Founding Fathers. From a hurricane-battered boyhood in the West Indies to the Constitutional Convention, the first national bank, and a fatal duel on the cliffs of Weehawken, no life in early America burned brighter or ended sooner. See how well you know Hamilton.
The Answer
Secretary of the Treasury
Washington named Hamilton the country's first Secretary of the Treasury in September 1789. He inherited a government buried in Revolutionary War debt and, in just a few years, restored its credit, founded the First Bank of the United States, and built much of the financial machinery the nation still runs on today. Hamilton has appeared on the ten-dollar bill for more than a century, one of only two men who never served as president to appear on circulating American paper money. The other is Benjamin Franklin.
On This Day
On this day in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to the public for the first time, in the yard of the Pennsylvania State House in Philadelphia, and the great bell in the tower rang out to gather the crowd. The document set down, one grievance after another, the case against a single man: King George III, the British monarch whose long reign lost America. Today's companion quiz takes you inside his turbulent life and troubled crown.
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Bob
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