The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

ISSUE TWENTY FOUR, JUNE 2010
A QUARTERLY JOURNAL

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Scandal! Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption that Rocked America
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This promissory note was signed by William Duer on January 13, 1785. Duer was second-in-command at the US Treasury Department prior to perpetrating America’s first major financial scandal, which was the primary cause of the Crash of 1792.
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