{"id":7052,"date":"2026-09-02T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7052"},"modified":"2025-12-16T19:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T00:20:47","slug":"treasury-department-was-created-by-congress-in-1789","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7052","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Department Was Created by Congress in 1789"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13299\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13299\" class=\"wp-image-13299 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Treasury-Department-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., with Statue of Alexander Hamilton in Front\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Treasury Building in Washington, D.C., with Statue of Alexander Hamilton in Front<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Treasury Department was created by Congress in 1789<\/strong>. Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury. Most historians feel he expertly guided the department through its infancy into a well-established part of the government. The Treasury Department is responsible for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Making currency<\/li>\n<li>Collecting taxes, duties, and money owed to the government<\/li>\n<li>Paying US government bills<\/li>\n<li>Monitoring national banks<\/li>\n<li>Publishing reports on state of treasury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Over 100,000 people work in the Treasury Department. Children could visit the department&#8217;s website at: <a href=\"https:\/\/home.treasury.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Treasury Department<\/a>. Who is the current secretary of the treasury?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treasury Department was created by Congress in 1789. Alexander Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury. Most historians feel he expertly guided the department through its infancy into a well-established part of the government. The Treasury Department is responsible for: Making currency Collecting taxes, duties, and money owed to the government Paying US government <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=7052' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4874,1415,5787,1414,1416],"class_list":["post-7052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4874","tag-alexander-hamilton","tag-september-2","tag-treasury-department","tag-us-government","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7052"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29673,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7052\/revisions\/29673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}