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Alexander Hamilton is important mostly for what he did while
George Washington was president.  He was also a major American
figure in the Revolutionary War, but it was his work in
government that is most important.  Hamilton was the first
Secretary of the Treasury under the government created by the
Constitution.  In this position, he created the financial
structure for the United States.  He set up a system for funding
the national debt.  He proposed a national bank and a tariff.
 He did these things because he wanted to set up a stable
economic environment that would allow the United States to
eventually become a wealth and industrialized nation.  We’ve
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