Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11th 1775 on the island of Nevis in the Virgin Islands

Alexander Hamilton is one of the two people who are not president to have their face on American currency

Alexander Hamilton is on the 10$ bill

FDR admired Thomas Jefferson's ability to remember and consider the common people during his presidency. During FDR's own presidency, he concerned himself with the average citizen and spoke of them as the "forgotten man." He admired Alexander Hamilton's ability to uphold a strong federal government.

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There is some discrepancy as to Alexander Hamilton's birth year. It is recorded as being 1757, but Danish records lead historians to believe he was actually born in 1755. Having died in 1804, Hamilton was either 49 or 51.

Hamilton hoped to provide financial order, precedence, and clarity, for the new-found United States. He also hoped to develop country and overseas credit for the new nation. Last, but not least, Hamilton wanted to resolve the fiat currency issues.

Alexander Hamilton was a founder of the Federalist Party; Thomas Jefferson was founder of the Democratic-Republican Party. The Federalists wanted a strong central government and encouraged the states to ratify the Constitution. The Democratic-Republicans believed the states should retain sovereignty.

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Alexander Hamilton was born into a poor family as the son of a maid. His father; however, was a wealthy plantation owner who eventually decided to send Hamilton to the best schools possible. Hamilton was very smart, and quickly made himself a fortune. He was born poor and died rich, in other words.

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He was a federalist and believed in a strong central government. He was the Secretary of Treasury in George Washington's cabinet and saved the contry from financial crisis. Hamilton created the National Bank which was disputed but was a major step in our government's growth.

No, he was never president because he was more interested in developing solutions which he did while reporting to President Washington. Contrary to popular misconception, the US Constitution said that anyone that was a member of one of the states as of the adoption of the US Constitution (Sept. 17, 1787) was eligible for federal office including President. Since Hamilton was a member of NYS in spring of 1782, he was eligible to be President...though he NEVER expressed an interest in theat. He was a founding father and the chief of staff to General Washington in 1777 and President George Washington in 1789. In total that relationship lasted over 22 years! For more information on Alexander Hamilton, visit the AHA Society website.

Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in calling for the ratification of the United States Constitution as well as in the proceedings of the ratification. These proceedings were the Constitutional Convention.

The newly created Bank of the United States helped stableize the economy.

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To deal with the government's financial issues

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Alexander Hamilton wasn't born in the US, but he represented New York.

His wifes name was Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton.

No. Thomas Jefferson was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Five men from the Constitutional Convention were delegated as a committee to write it. In addition to Thomas Jefferson they were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston, Roger Sherman.

1) As a illegitimate child, Hamilton was not allowed to attend school, and was mostly self-educated.

2) Made manager of a shipping company on St. Croix at age 14.

3) Wrote essays and reports for his local newspaper, that so impressed the community that they took up a colection to raise money for him to attend college in New York.

4) Became a lawyer and published the first manual on civil legal procedures in America.

5) Wrote more of the Federalist Papers than any Founder; he is the author most-cited by the Supreme Court in making it's decisions.

6) Founded the New York Post - the oldest, continuous daily newspaper in America.

7) Volunteered to serve in the Conintental Army, and quickly promoted to Washington's cheif assistant - largely responsible for organizing, equipping, and supplying the Revolutionary Army.

8) Made the first Secretary of the Treasury - the 2nd most powerful office in the US -by Washington.

9) Issued his Report on Manufactures which was used as a basic guide for US trade relations from 1790 - 1975.

10) Helped found the Bank of the United States.

11) Commanded a battalion at the Battle of Yorktown. There he personally led a charge against a British stronghold, and even climbed upon the shoulders of his own men to attack the enemy.

12) Represented New York in the Constitutional Convention.

13) Founded the New York Manumission Society - One of the first anti-slavery groups in America.

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The duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton took place in Weehawken on July 11, 1804. Hamilton died the following day, and a new running mate was chosen for Pres. Jefferson for the 1804 election.

--- he was a Constitution signer, and the sole signer from New York, going against the political grain of his own state.

--- he wrote 51 of the 85 Federalist Papers, devised the Papers, and recruited Jay and Madison.

--- he was the nation's first Secretary of Treasury, and as such he drew up policies in use today. He got the nation out of debt; by 1795 the nation had an excellent credit abroad. Without Hamilton's work Jefferson would have been unable to carry out the Louisiana Purchase.

--- he established the US Customs Service, the US Coast Guard (its later name), the US Mint, and the First National Bank of the US, which was the forerunner for the Federal Reserves

--- he was a part of the court case Croswell v People, which involved libel, and his argument in the case greatly influences how we try libel cases (truth and intent protect you)

--- he helped to establish the New York Evening-Post

Not bad, considering his origins.

(There were earlier a few answers, but I took the liberty of condensing them into a neater list.)

Hamilton wanted a strong central government, but Jefferson believed that it was the right of the people to rule their economy.

Some modern scholars believe that the historical record confirms Hamilton as a "steadfast abolitionist"; others see him as a "hypocrite.". For example, Hamilton returned an escaped slave to a friend. Hamilton's first polemic against King George's ministers contains a paragraph which speaks of the evils which "slavery" to the British would bring upon the Americans. One biographer sees this as an attack on actual slavery; such hostility was quite common in 1776. During the Revolutionary War, there was a series of proposals to arm slaves, free them, and compensate their masters. Freeing any enlisted slaves had also become customary by then both for the British, who did not compensate their American masters, and for the Continental Army; some states were to require it before the end of the war. In 1779, Hamilton's friend John Laurens suggested such a unit be formed under his command, to relieve besieged Charleston, South Carolina; Hamilton wrote a letter to the Continental Congress to create up to four battalions of slaves for combat duty, and free them. Congress recommended that South Carolina (and Georgia) acquire up to three thousand slaves, if they saw fit; they did not, even though the South Carolina governor and Congressional delegation had supported the plan in Philadelphia. Hamilton argued that blacks' natural faculties were as good as those of free whites, and he forestalled objections by citing Frederick the Great and others as praising obedience and lack of cultivation in soldiers; he also argued that if the Americans did not do this, the British would (as they had elsewhere). One of his biographers has cited this incident as evidence that Hamilton and Laurens saw the Revolution and the struggle against slavery as inseparable. Hamilton later attacked his political opponents as demanding freedom for themselves and refusing to allow it to blacks. In January 1785, he attended the second meeting of the New York Manumission Society (NYMS). John Jay was president and Hamilton was secretary; he later became president. He was also a member of the committee of the society which put a bill through the New York Legislature banning the export of slaves from New York; three months later, Hamilton returned a fugitive slave to Henry Laurens of South Carolina. Hamilton never supported forced emigration for freed slaves; it has been argued from this that he would be comfortable with a multiracial society, and this distinguished him from his contemporaries. In international affairs, he supported Toussaint L'Ouverture's black government in Haiti after the revolt that overthrew French control, as he had supported aid to the slaveowners in 1791 - both measures hurt France. He may have owned household slaves himself (the evidence for this is indirect; one biographer interprets it as referring to paid employees), and he did buy and sell them on behalf of others. He supported a gag rule to keep divisive discussions of slavery out of Congress, and he supported the compromise by which the United States could not abolish the slave trade for twenty years. When the Quakers of New York petitioned the First Congress (under the Constitution) for the abolition of the slave trade, and Benjamin Franklin and the Pennsylvania Abolition Society petitioned for the abolition of slavery, the NYMS did not act. Historian James Horton concludes that Hamilton's racial views, while not entirely egalitarian, were relatively progressive for his day.

In the winter before their terms ran out, Adams and the federalist congress worked together to pass the judiciary act 1801. This law added 21 positions to the roster of the federal judges.