Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849)
- Name:
- Gallatin, Albert (1761-1849)
- Title:
- US Senate-1793.
House of Representatives-1795 (becomes House Majority Leader).
Meriweather Lewis honors him by naming one of three headwaters of Missouri River after him-1805.
Established "New Geneva, PA" for European emmigrants fleeing French Revolution-1793.
Helped charter Second Bank of the United States-1816.
Facilitates signing of Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812.
US Minister to France 1816-1823.
Founded University of the City of New York-1831; it is renamed New York University in 1896.
Forms the American Ethnological Society in 1842, and is later called the "father of American ethnology".
Longest-serving United States Secretary of Treasury-1801-1814. - Born:
- 01/29/1761
- Birthplace:
- Geneva, Switzerland
- Died:
- 08/12/1849
- Death Location:
- Borough of Queens, NY
- Residence:
- Geneva, Switzerland
Boston, MA
Machias, ME
New York, NY
Boroughof Queens, NY. - Nationality:
- Swiss-American
- Occupation:
- Ethnologist, politician, linguist, diplomat, congressman.
- Father:
- Jean Gallatin
- Mother:
- Sophie Albertine Rollaz
- Relations:
- Madamoiselle Pictet-caretaker after he is orphaned: 1770-1773
- Spouse:
- Sophia Allegre-1789
Hannah Nicholson-1793
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