Gallatin, Albert
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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GALLATIN, ALBERT gal tin, 1761 1849, American financier and public official...Switzerland. Left an orphan at nine, Gallatin was reared by his patrician relatives...Whiskey Rebellion (1794), although Gallatin himself opposed the tax on whiskey...