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Sep 15, 2014 · Best Known For: Alexander Hamilton was a Founding Father, a Constitutional Convention delegate, author of the Federalist papers and the first secretary of the U.S. treasury. Industries U.S. Politics
On January 25, 1777, the Pennsylvania Evening Post posted an advertisement: “Captain Alexander Hamilton, of the New-York company of artillery, by applying to the printer of this paper, may hear of something to his advantage.” 1 This referenced General George Washington’s decision to invite Hamilton to his military staff, which Hamilton ...
Read Now. Born into obscurity in the British West Indies, Alexander Hamilton made his reputation during the Revolutionary War and became one of America’s most influential Founding Fathers.
When Burr read in a newspaper that Hamilton had expressed a "despicable opinion" of him, the vice president demanded a further explanation which Hamilton did not provide.
During this time he found love in the person of Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of a powerful New York landholder and military officer, Philip Schuyler. Alexander and Elizabeth married in 1780. For ...
Feb 21, 2023 · Portrait of Mrs. John Barker Church (Angelica Schuyler), Son Philip, and Servant by John Trumbull, 1785. / The Athenaeum, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain. As Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical ...
Although Hamilton kept it secret, he was the ghostwriter for Washington’s Farewell Address in 1796, as this draft fragment reveals. Washington's Farewell Address, printed in Claypoole's Advertiser (1796-09-19) by Washington, George (1732-1799) The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
