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The President, Directors and Company of the Bank of the United States, commonly known as the First Bank of the United States, was a national bank, chartered for a term of twenty years, by the United States Congress on February 25, 1791. It followed the Bank of North America, the nation's first de facto national bank.
The term national bank in the U.S. context originally referred to the Revolutionary War–era Bank of North America, its successor, the First Bank of the United States, or that institution's successor, the Second Bank of the United States. The first survives as an acquisition of Wells Fargo, while the others are defunct.
In 1791, former Morris aide and chief advocate for Northern mercantile interests, Alexander Hamilton, the Secretary of the Treasury, accepted a compromise with the Southern lawmakers to ensure the continuation of Morris's Bank project; in exchange for support by the South for a national bank, Hamilton agreed to ensure sufficient support to have the national or federal capitol moved from its ...
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is a U.S. federal agency established by the National Currency Act of 1863 and serves to charter, regulate, and supervise all national banks and the federal branches and agencies of foreign banks in the United States. Thomas J. Curry was sworn in as the 30th Comptroller of the Currency on April ...
The National Bank Act encouraged development of a national currency backed by bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities. It established the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency as part of the United States Department of the Treasury , authorizing it to examine and regulate nationally chartered banks.
One U.S. Bank Plaza in downtown St. Louis, Missouri The U.S. Bank tower in downtown Denver, Colorado U.S. Bank tower in Salt Lake City, Utah U.S.. Bank Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin U.S. Bank Building in Sheboygan, Wisconsin U.S. Bancorp footprint United States National Bank of Portland, Oregon Downtown Minneapolis; Capella Tower is the circular building on the center-right.
The Second Bank was America's national bank, comparable to the Bank of England and the Bank of France, with one key distinction – the United States government owned one-fifth (20 percent) of its capital. Whereas other national banks of that era were wholly private, the Second Bank was more characteristic of a government bank.
The United States National Bank Building in downtown Portland, Oregon was designed by A. E. Doyle in a Roman classical style, [3] and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [5] The four-story building's first section, facing Sixth Avenue, was completed and opened in 1917.