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Department of the Treasury. Established: Like the State Department, the Department of the Treasury was formally established by the First Congress of the United States in 1789. First Secretary: Alexander Hamilton served under Washington from 1789-1795.
The Patent Office building, today housing the Smithsonian Institution's Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of American Art, served as DOI headquarters. In 1789 Congress created three Executive Departments: Foreign Affairs (later in the same year renamed State), Treasury, and War. It also provided for an Attorney General and a Postmaster General. Domestic matters were apportioned by Congress among these departments.