The United States Department of War, also called the War Department (and occasionally War Office in the early years), was the United States Cabinet department originally responsible for the operation and maintenance of the United States Army. The War Department also bore responsibility for naval affairs until the establishment of the Navy Department in 1798 and for most land-based air forces until the creation of the Department of the Air Force in 1947. The Secretary of War headed the war department throughout its existence.
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p The State Department, The Treasury Department, and the War (defence) Department
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The departments he created are: Department of State,to deal with foreign affairs; the Department of War, to handle military matters: and the Department of Treasury, to manage finances. The heads were: Thomas Jefferson as secretary of state, Alexander Hamilton as secretary of treasury, and Henry Knox as secretary of war.
It had 4 members - state, treasury,war and justice ( atty.- general.)
He's one of the United States' most underrated founders... he was a financial genius, founded our nation's treasury department, and contributed to the war effort under Washington.