It's true that the First National Bank was dominated by ... President James Madison authorized the creation of the Second Bank of the United States. Source: Federal Reserve of Philadelphia Foreign ...

But the Bank of the United States, like many of Hamilton's other ... Soon after he became the nation's first Treasury Secretary, he was already proposing a national equivalent.

His title was President of the United States in Congress Assembled ... Weeks into Hanson’s administration, the nation's first central bank, the Bank of North America, predecessor to today’s Federal ...

The United States was a leading force in the establishment of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) in 1944 and remains the largest shareholder of the World Bank Group today ...