Thomas Jefferson

U.S. President George Washington (far left) sits with members of his Cabinet who were appointed in 1789 and 1790. The members are (left to right) Secretary of War Henry Knox, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph.

Economist and political philosopher, Alexander Hamilton was the  
first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States from 1789 to
1795. He was also one of America’s first constitutional lawyers.