Alexander Hamilton
American statesman and Founding Father
Alexander Hamilton was an American Founding Father and the first US secretary of the treasury. He wrote 51 of the 85 parts of The Federalist Papers.
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About Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was born on Nevis, a Caribbean island, and went on to study at King's College in New York City, which is now Columbia University. In the American Revolutionary War he served as an artillery officer and spent four years as aide-de-camp to George Washington. After the war he left Congress to practise law and founded the Bank of New York. He took part in the Philadelphia Convention that produced the US Constitution, and he then wrote 51 of the 85 parts of The Federalist Papers. Under President Washington, Hamilton served as the first secretary of the treasury, from 1789 to 1795. In 1801 he founded the New-York Evening Post, now called the New York Post. He died on July 12, 1804, a day after a pistol duel with Aaron Burr.