For ten points, name this staunch fiscal conservative and Swiss immigrant who served Jefferson and Madison as Secretary of the Treasury
Early in his career, he was elected to the Senate but disqualified because he had not been a citizen for sufficient time; he was forced to settle for the House, where he notably opposed appropriations for the Navy via his orchestration of the Committee on Finance. Late in his career, he served as John Quincy Adams' minister to Great Britain and co-founded New York University and the American Ethnological Society. More notably, he was the highest-ranking American negotiator at Ghent. For ten points, name this staunch fiscal conservative and Swiss immigrant who served Jefferson and Madison as Secretary of the Treasury
Early in his career, he was elected to the Senate but disqualified because he had not been a citizen for sufficient time; he was forced to settle for the House, where he notably opposed appropriations for the Navy via his orchestration of the Committee on Finance.
Abraham Alfonse Albert {Gallatin}