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of revenue gushed forth; he touched the dead corpse
of public credit and it sprang to its feet."
Daniel Webster (attributed)
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 Born |
January
11, 1757, Nevis, St. Croix, British West Indies; the son of James
Alexander Hamilton (a Scottish merchant) and Rachel Fawcett Lavien.
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| Education |
Worked
as a clerk for a St. Croix trading post; immigrated to America in
1772; attended grammar school in Elizabethtown, N.J., and was graduated
from Kings College (now Columbia University) in 1775. |
| Religion |
Presbyterian |
| Family |
At
the age of 25 married Elizabeth Schuyler on December 14, 1780; they
had eight children: Philip Hamilton (1782), Angelica Hamilton (1784),
Alexander Hamilton Jr. (1786), James Alexander Hamilton (1788),
John Church Hamilton (1792), William Stephen Hamilton (1797), Eliza
Hamilton (1799), and Phillip Hamilton (1802). |
| Accomplishments |
Captain,
New York Artillery Company (1776)
Lt. Colonel and aide de camp to George Washington (1777-81)
Practiced law in New York (1783-1804)
Delegate to the Continental Congress (1782-83 and 1788)
Commanded infantry brigade at the Battle of Yorktown (1781)
Founder and Director, Bank of New York (1784)
Delegate to the Annapolis Convention (1786)
Member, New York State Assembly (1787)
Delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787)
Co-author, The Federalist Papers (1787-88)
Secretary of the Treasury (1789-95)
Inspector General of the Army (1798)
Founder, New York Evening Post (1801) |
| Died |
July
12, 1804, New York City (after being fatally wounded in a duel
with Aaron Burr); buried at Trinity Churchyard in Manhattan.
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| Last
Words
| "Remember,
my Eliza, you are a Christian." |
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