Albert Gallatin, the Amazing Swiss-American

Gallatin played a key role in America’s early days. Here are some of his noteworthy accomplishments.

A statue of the longest serving U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Albert Gallatin, is seen outside the U.S. Treasury Department building on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 24, 2017. Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images

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A Tennessee town and counties in Kentucky and Montana are named after him. His statue graces one of the entrances to the U.S. Treasury building in Washington. One of the three rivers that converge to form the Missouri River carries his name. So do a mountain range and a national forest in Montana.