Word: boudinot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, instituted the custom in 1792. Only once has a ripple of discord disturbed the ceremony. In 1801 the trial had to be postponed after the seat of government was moved from Philadelphia to Washington. At this unseemly break in an established tradition, Mint Director Elias Boudinot wrote indignantly to President John Adams, protesting that public confidence in the federal coinage was being undermined...