Albert Gallatin
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 19th Century
- Categories: Government and Politics, Science, Economics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Anthropology, Anthropologists, Banks, Banking, Finance
- Curriculum: American Revolutionary History (1776-1788), American History 1816-1855, American Early National History (1789-1815)
Article abstract: Drawing upon the social philosophy of the French Enlightenment, Gallatin contributed, as secretary of the treasury to the administrations of Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, to the fiscal stability of the new nation and, as the first president of the American Ethnological Society, to the development of American anthropology.
Early Life
Abraham Alfonse Albert Gallatin was born January 29, 1761, in Geneva, Switzerland. Both his mother, née Sophie Albertine Rolaz, and his father, Jean Gallatin, died when Albert was an...
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