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American national bank (1816–41)

This article is about the early 19th-century federal institution. Not to be confused with the First Bank of the United States, the early 20th-century corporation the Bank of the United States, or the modern corporation Bank of America.

The Second Bank of the United States was the second federally authorized Hamiltonian national bank in the United States.

Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the bank was chartered from February 1816 to January 1836.^[1] The bank's formal name, according to section 9 of its charter as passed by Congress, was "The President, Directors, and Company, of the Bank of the United States".^[2] While other banks in the US were chartered by and only allowed to have branches in a single state, it was authorized to have branches in multiple states and lend money to the US government.

A private corporation with public duties, the bank handled all fiscal transactions for