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Thomas Willing: The Revolutionary War Arms Dealer Who Led the First Bank of the United States
America’s revolutionary war would have almost certainly been lost if not for the colony’s wealthiest merchant. Thomas Willing was a prominent Philadelphia merchant and financier who, in partnership with Robert Morris, operated one of the colonies' most successful importing and exporting firms, specializing in goods such as flour, lumber, tobacco, and sugar, while later using his wealth and mercantile connections to supply the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.
After the War, he brought sanity to the unstable early American economy. America was suffocating under a…
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