Alexander Hamilton

"[This] bronze statue of Alexander Hamilton by James Earle Fraser was dedicated on May 17, 1923, and can be found on the south patio (Alexander Hamilton Place, NW) of the U.S. Treasury Building in Washington D.C." -- Wikipedia

 "Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 or 1757 in Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis, in the Leeward Islands. Commissioned in 1917, and cast by the Kunst Foundry, the statue depicts Hamilton holding a tricorn hat and a long dress coat in his hands. In the statue, Hamilton is clad in knee breeches, a throat fichu, buckled shoes, and ruffled cuffs. The statue stands 10 feet high atop a 9-foot granite base made by Henry Bacon." --  Wikipedia

ALEXANDER HAMILTON
1757 — 1804
FIRST SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY
SOLDIER, ORATOR, STATESMAN
CHAMPION OF CONSTITUTIONAL UNION,
REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT AND
NATIONAL INTEGRITY
Fraser 1922

A. Kunst Foundry NY

The inscription on the north side reads: "He smote the rock of the national resources and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touched the dead corpse of the public credit and it sprang upon its feet." The quotation is from Daniel Webster. Webster continues, "The fabled birth of Minerva, from the brain of Jove, was hardly more sudden and more perfect than the financial system of the United States, as it burst forth from the conceptions of Alexander Hamilton."

The statue was dedicated on  May 17, 1923 Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon presided and President Harding made a speech accepting the statue.  The program is available here.

 The Statue has appeared on the reverse of the US $10 bill since 1928.

This Library of  Congress photo shows Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon laying a wreath at the Hamilton Statue on January 11, 1929, 172nd anniversary of Hamilton's birth.

See other portraits of Hamilton in the Portrait Gallery Blog.