More facts about Me!!

• Alexander Hamilton, Albert Gallatin,and I are one of the key founders of the United States financial system
• I established in Philadelphia the Bank of North America, chartered first by Congress and later by Pennsylvania, the oldest financial institution in the United States
• My face was on United States $1000 notes from 1862-1863 and on $10 silver certificates from 1878-1880

My Life after serving in the Senate

I never recovered the wealth that I had before the revolution. What was left of my fortune
I invested in land but lost money because of declining land values in the western part of New York state. I spent three years in a debtor's prison for inability to pay my debts. I was released after congress passed a bankruptcy protection bill and I was able to prove I had no money. I guess this is my last blog entree. I will probebly die somwtime this month at the ge of seventy three, in relative poverty. I died May 9, 1806, in relative poverty, at the age of 73.

More facts about Me!

• I originally voted against the Declaration of Independence
• Roger Sherman and I were the only two individuals to sign all three of the important founding documents of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution
• My home in Philadelphia was used as the Executive Mansion by Presidents George Washington and John Adams while Philadelphia was the temporary U.S. capital from 1790-1800, during the construction of Washington, D.C.