List of foreign-born United States Cabinet members
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List of foreign-born United States Cabinet members
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As of 2023, there have been 23 members appointed to the Cabinet of the United States who had been born outside the present-day United States. Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers who signed the U.S. Constitution, was the first cabinet member to be born outside of the United States. President George Washington appointed Hamilton, born in Nevis in 1755 or in 1757, as the United States' first Secretary of the Treasury in 1789. Irish-born James McHenry, whom Washington appointed as Secret
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foreign-born_United_States_Cabinet_members
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2009-01-21T19:48:41Z
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2024-08-28T09:48:55Z
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