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Robert Morris



Morris, Robert (1734–1806), U.S. financier who funded the American Revolution and signed the Declaration of Independence. As superintendent of finance (1781–84) he saved the nation from bankruptcy by raising money (chiefly from the French) to establish the Bank of North America.



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