In 1791, President George Washington appointed Willing along with two others as commissioners of the newly created First Bank of the United States. He was elected president of the bank later that year, and during his tenure, he became the richest man in America. In August 1807, Willing suffered a slight stroke, and within a few months, he resigned his position with the bank for health reasons. Personal life In 1763, Willing married Anne McCall (1745–1781), daughter of Samuel McCall (1721–1762) and Anne Searle (1724–1757). Together, they had thirteen children, including: Anne Willing (1764–1801), who married William Bingham (1752–1804) Thomas Mayne Willing (1767–1822), who married Jane Nixon (1775–1823) Elizabeth Willing (1768–1858), who married William Jackson (1759–1828) Mary Willing (1770–1852), who married Henry Clymer (1767–1830) Dorothy Willing (1772–1842), who married Thomas Willing Francis, a cousin George Willing (1774–1827), who married Rebecca Harrison Blackwell (1782–1852) Richard Willing (1775–1858), who married Eliza Moore (1786–1823) Abigail Willing (1777–1841), who married Richard Peters (1780–1848). Willing died in 1821 in Philadelphia, where he is interred in Christ Church Burial Ground. Descendants Willing was the great-uncle of John Brown Francis (1791–1864), who was a governor and United States Senator from Rhode Island. Willing was also the grandfather of Ann Louisa Bingham (b. 1782), who married Alexander Baring, 1st Baron Ashburton (1774–1848), in 1798, and Maria Matilda Bingham (1783–1849), who was briefly married to Jacques Alexandre, Comte de Tilly, a French aristocrat and later married her sister's brother-in-law, Henry Baring (1777–1848), until their divorce in 1824. Maria later married the Marquis de Blaisel in 1826. Their brother, and Willing's grandson, William Bingham (1800–1852) married Marie-Charlotte Chartier de Lotbiniere (1805–1866), the second of the three daughters and heiresses of Michel-Eustache-Gaspard-Alain Chartier de Lotbinière by his second wife Mary, daughter of Captain John Munro, in 1822. See also Stephen Simpson, an outspoken journalist and fierce critic of the First National Bank and its practices. List of wealthiest historical figures List of richest Americans in history References Sources Wright, Robert E. "Thomas Willing (1731–1821): Philadelphia Financier and Forgotten Founding Father". Pennsylvania History, 63 (Autumn 1996): 525–60. Columbia Encyclopedia article Further reading External links Biographical sketch and portrait at the University of Pennsylvania The Willings and Francis Records, including correspondence, deeds and legal documents of Thomas Willings' mercantile firm (Willings and Francis), are available for research use at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. 1731 births 1821 deaths 18th-century American politicians American slave