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Gallatin on Money Portraits and His Life Explored
A New York congressman urged honoring Albert Gallatin with a portrait on upcoming currency. The piece chronicles Gallatin’s Swiss birth in 1761, emigration to America, roles as land agent, senator, secretary of the treasury, and diplomat, and notes a statue planned for the Treasury building. It also recounts his influence on the nation’s financial system and his later ethnology and education efforts.
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