He was a "founding father" and the first Secretary of the Treasury. He worked to have a national banking system.
Hamilton was never President, though. He and Benjamin Franklin are the only two people pictured on current American paper money who never served as President.
· the first United States Secretary of the Treasury signing the constitution and being on the ten dollar bill
He's not on any US coin. He's on the $10 bill.
Alexander Hamilton's face is in the ten dollar bill.
The symbolic connection. The One dollar bill, and he was President #1.
Alexander Hamilton was never a US President. His picture is on the $10 bill because he was the first Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander Hamilton
He was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury.
The ten Dollar bill featuring Alexander Hamilton , and the 100 Dollar bill featuring Benjamin Franklin.
· the first United States Secretary of the Treasury signing the constitution and being on the ten dollar bill
The very first US $2 bill was issued in 1862, and it featured a picture of Alexander Hamilton.
He's not on any US coin. He's on the $10 bill.
Alexander Hamilton's face is in the ten dollar bill.
That would be the ten dollar and fifty dollar bill with Alexander Hamilton and Benjamin Franklin.
The front shows a portrait of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The back shows a picture of the US Treasury building in Washington.
Take a $10 bill and very carefully move your eyes down to the bottom of the picture. The name is right there underneath. It's Alexander Hamilton.
The very first federally-issued $2 bills were printed in 1862 and had a picture of Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton's picture was replaced by Thomas Jefferson's in 1869.
The picture of George Washington is depicted on the dollar bill.