Alexander Hamiltons veep

Answer 1

Alexander Hamilton was never president. The highest office he held was that of Secretary of the Treasury. Becoming president would involve exploiting a loophole in the Constitution (he was not born in the colonies but in the Caribbean and was only a US citizen because he was around at the signing of the Constitution), and he didn't want the job anyways.

Answer 2

No. Alexander Hamilton served as the first Secretary of the Treasury under George Washington. He never campaigned for higher office, and probably had too many enemies to be a serious candidate, anyway.

Many people mistakenly believe Hamilton didn't qualify to run for President because he wasn't a "natural born citizen," having been born on the Isle of Nevis in the British West Indies; however, Hamilton had emigrated to America in 1771, at age 17, and had served in the Revolutionary War under General (later President) Washington.

Hamilton was one of the Framers of the Constitution, and would have been eligible to serve in any office under a provision in Article II that made an exception to the "natural born" rule for men residing in the US when the Constitution was adopted.

Article II, Section 1:

No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.

Answer 3

John Adams was the VP when Hamilton served in Washington's cabinet. Alexander Hamilton was never President.