The United States Revenue Cutter Service, was established as the Revenue-Marine, and so named for over one hundred years, by then-Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton in 1790, to serve as an armed maritime law enforcement service. Throughout its entire existence, the service operated under the authority of the United States Department of the Treasury. In 1915 the service merged with the United States Life-Saving Service to form the United States Coast Guard.
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