In order to shed some light on the complete, factual story, we generated a statistical analysis, which was created using information from the Congressional Budget Office, the White House Office of Management and Budget, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Financial Management Service, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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Hamilton's role as the architect of America's financial system is fairly well known: he founded the Treasury department and unified the national currency and debt.

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