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Gallatin National Bank was a New York City bank named after Albert Gallatin, its first president, who was also a Swiss-American ethnologist, linguist, politician, diplomat, congressman, and the longest-serving United States Secretary of the Treasury.

It was first chartered in 1829. National Bank of New York. Name changed in 1865.

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Albert Gallatin: Jeffersonian Financier and Diplomat - Page 347 Raymond Walters - 1957 - 476 pages - Preview QUOTE: ... Frederic, and James, who added to the delight of the grandparents in Bleecker * In 1865 the name of the National Bank of New York was changed to the Gallatin Bank in honor of its first president. In 1912 it was absorbed by the institution ...

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Encyclopedia of the War of 1812 - Page 203 David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler - 2004 - 636 pages - Preview Financial acumen led to his selection in 1831 as president of longtime friend John Jacob Astor's new National (later Gallatin) Bank of New York, where the sage continued to influence national fiscal policy. Through well- reasoned expositions, ... More editions

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In 1887, the bank arranged for the Gallatin Bank Building to be built in Manhattan.

In 1900, the bank's president was Frederick D. Tappen, who celebrated the fiftieth anniversary with the bank in November 1900.

In 1912, the bank was acquired by Hanover National Bank (which later became Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company), and Galatin president Samuel Woolverton because vice-president of Hanover.