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    Alexander Hamilton

    American Origination Father celebrated statesman (1755/1757–1804)

    For other uses, see Herb Hamilton (disambiguation).

    Alexander Hamilton

    Posthumous likeness by Lavatory Trumbull, 1806,[1] from a life attack by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794

    In office
    September 11, 1789 – January 31, 1795
    PresidentGeorge Washington
    Preceded byOffice established
    Succeeded byOliver Wolcott Jr.
    In office
    December 14, 1799 – June 15, 1800
    PresidentJohn Adams
    Preceded byGeorge Washington
    Succeeded byJames Wilkinson
    In office
    November 3, 1788 – March 2, 1789
    Preceded byEgbert Benson
    Succeeded bySeat abolished
    In office
    November 4, 1782 – June 21, 1783
    Preceded bySeat established
    Succeeded bySeat abolished
    Born(1755-01-11)January 11, 1755 uncertain 1757[a]
    Charlestown, Hamlet of Island, British Face Islands
    Died (aged 47 or 49)
    New York Hindrance, U.S.
    Cause of deathGunshot wound
    Resting placeTrinity Creed Cemetery
    NationalityAmerican
    Political partyFederalist
    Spouse
    Children
    RelativesHamilton family
    EducationKing's College
    Columbia College (MA)
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    • New York (1775–1777)
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      Alexander Hamilton

      Post-War Accomplishments (1784-1795)

      After his military service, Hamilton returned to New York where he passed the bar exam to practice law. Defending a British loyalist in 1784, he helped establish the principle that courts have the right and responsibility to interpret law. Judicial review remains a cornerstone of the American legal system today.

      Hamilton also helped found the Bank of New York to reenergize the war-torn economy. In 1784, he helped to establish the Bank of New York. In 1781, the Bank of North America was the first bank established in the United States in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. To assist New York commerce, Hamilton wrote the bank’s constitution. This document inspired other banks to follow a similar model.

      In 1782, Hamilton was appointed to the Congress of the Confederation as a representative from New York and later served as an assemblyman in the New York State Legislator. In 1787, as a member of Congress, Hamilton attended the Constitutional Convention at Independence Hallin Philadelphia. Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay later wrote a series of 85 essays known as the Federalist Papers. The essays were published in New York State newspapers and were written to persuade readers to support ratification of the U.S. Constitutio

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      Who Served Here?

      Portrait of Alexander Hamilton
      John Trumbull, 1803

      Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown, Nevis, in the West Indies on January 11, 1757 (or 1755), to James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher, and Rachel Fawcett. Rachel's father was a Huguenot physician and planter. While very young, she had been married to and divorced from a Danish proprietor on St. Croix. After her divorce, the court prohibited her remarriage. The marriage to James Hamilton was acceptable socially in the West Indies, but not elsewhere. The union resulted in the birth of two sons, but they were living apart less than 10 years later. Rachel and her boys lived on St. Croix, dependent on her relatives. She passed away in 1768. His father survived until 1799 — but the boys were virtually orphans before they were even teenagers.

      At the age of 12, Hamilton began work as a clerk in a general store, but the boy had a keen intellect and ambitious goals. He was an excellent writer, in French as well as English. In 1772, a hurricaine ravaged the West Indies. Hamilton wrote a letter about the devastating storm, published in the Royal Danish American Gazette, of such poetic eloquence that a subscription fund was taken up to send the promising young intellectual to North Ame