Alexander Hamilton was the first secretary of this government department
So it was not 
surprising that the Treasury was the largest department of the new government, ... 
First, he wanted to redeem the old debt on generous terms by... [DOC] [TLE] Edmund Jennings Randolph - People - Department History - Office ... [PAR] Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Edmund Jennings Randolph ... him as 
the first Attorney General of the United States in 1789 and then as Secretary of 
State in 1794.