Alexander Hamilton Statue

The Alexander Hamilton Statue stands on the south patio of the United States Treasury Building in Washington, DC. Here, historian Richard Norton Smith talks about the life and legacy of Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The statue was sculpted by James Earle Fraser.

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• Alexander Hamilton
• Statue
• Washington
• DC
• Richard Norton Smith
• Secretary of the Treasury
• James Earle Fraser
• Warren G. Harding
• Andrew Mellon

[oldhacks]

@mk6758 andrew jackson destroyed the bank remember? look what took it's place. the federal reserve is NOT what Hamilton intended. He created a bank For the people. not From the people and into private business's hands.

[mk6758]

@oldhacks I just think its funny that we praise a man who formed a central bank; the same bank system that if you were to look around you today, is destroying America.

[oldhacks]

@mk6758 what's wrong with nationalism? especially in That political climate. that's just human nature / family instinct, ya know? and after all it was his sense of "nationalism" that we ALL adopted when we became "Americans".

[mk6758]

@oldhacks pfft yeah but behind the man behind the curtain was a nationalist looking for power.

[oldhacks]

@mk6758 go fuck yourself Hamilton gave us ALL the freedoms we now enjoy. no borders between states, a national currency, national identity, not to mention his importance to George Washington's militia during the revolution.

[mk6758]

Alexander Hamilton would have been happy to kneel to the very robes of king george himself... He was no advocate for freedom. He is the face of big bankers and American debt.