Alexander Hamilton

1 week ago - Alexander supplemented his education with a family library of 34 books. James Hamilton later abandoned Rachel Lavien and their two sons, ostensibly to "spar[e] [her] a charge of bigamy...after finding out that her first husband intend[ed] to divorce her under Danish law on grounds of adultery and desertion." Lavien then moved with their two children back to Saint Croix, where she supported them by managing a small store ...

July 20, 1998 - Alexander Hamilton (born January ... was a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787), major author of the Federalist papers, and first secretary of the treasury of the United States (1789–95), who was the ...

A BRIEF HISTORY ALEXANDER HAMILTON 1755: Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, in the Eastern Caribbean. His parents, Rachel Faucette and James Hamilton, were not married to each other; therefore there was no official record of his birth.

December 26, 2018 - This Founding Father came to America alone at age 15. He fought at Washington's side in the Revolution, helped ensure the ratification of the Constitution, and saved the fledgling United States from financial ruin.

February 25, 2022 - When he was about 15, he wrote a letter about a recent hurricane. People were so impressed with the teenager’s writing skills that in 1772, they raised the money to send Hamilton to the American colonies to get an education.

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 accepted, making him a lieutenant colonel.

January 8, 2019 - Alexander Hamilton arrived in America in 1772 at the age of fifteen—a poor, self-taught, ambitious immigrant from the West Indies. He settled in New York City in the midst of the colonial crisis, when oppressive taxes and other policies pushed ...

He first gained notice by George Washington during the New York and New Jersey Campaign. Washington recognized Hamilton's fiery demeanor, command of organization, and fidelity to the cause.

October 11, 2024 - Alexander Hamilton (1755/7–1804) rose from an impoverished upbringing to become one of the founding fathers of America. Today, he is best known for featuring on the $10 bill in the United States and as the subject of the hugely successful ...

July 2, 2025 - Alexander Hamilton, born into obscurity in the West Indies, made his reputation during the Revolutionary War and became one of America’s most influential Founding Fathers. He was an impassioned champion of a strong federal government, and played a key role in ratifying the U.S.

Alexander Hamilton to Elizabeth Schuyler, October 5, 1780 In October of 1780, Hamilton wrote this passionate letter to his Betsey: “You engross my thoughts too entirely to allow me to think of any thing else. You not only employ my mind all day; but you intrude upon my sleep. I meet you in every dream – and when I wake I cannot close my eyes again for ruminating on your sweetnesses. ’Tis a pretty story indeed that I am to be thus monopolized, by a little nut-brown maid like you – and from a statesman and a soldier metamorphosed into a puny lover.”

Hamilton spent much of his life in military uniform. From 1776 to 1781, in the Revolutionary War, he fought in seven major battles, as a captain of artillery, a colonel on George Washington's staff, and a commander of light infantry. In the 1790s, the French Revolution ignited a new series ...

In 1773, Hamilton was entered at King's College (Now Columbia). Even as a young man he had a strong grasp on political issues concerning British and American government, which he exhibited in a series of anonymous pamphlets so discerning, they ...

Alexander Hamilton was born January 11, 1755 or 1757 (the exact birth date is unknown) in the West Indies. He was moved to the Virgin Islands by his mother at a young age. Due to his mother’s lack of marital status, Hamilton was not seen as a legitimate child and was thus denied access to ...

An illegitimate child born in the West Indies and orphaned at 12 — “the bastard brat of a Scottish pedlar,” John Adams snorted — Hamilton railed at the humiliations of both circumstance and geography through his teenage years while working ...

December 9, 2020 - When she was released, instead of returning to her husband and son, the independent-minded Rachel fled the troubled marriage and moved to St. Kitts. It was there she met and moved in with James Hamilton, with whom she had another son, James (Alexander's older brother), who was born in 1753.

December 27, 2017 - But Alexander Hamilton rose to become a Revolutionary War hero, key advocate for the Constitution, and rescuer of the nascent American government from financial ruin, all before dying in a duel just six months shy of his 50th birthday.

6 days ago - He held the dueling pistols used in the famous Burr–Hamilton duel, visited the jail cell on Saint Croix where Hamilton's mother was imprisoned, went to the island of Bequia in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines to which Hamilton's father disappeared after abandoning his illegitimate son, and had a lock of Alexander's hair genetically tested for his racial makeup.

The material documents the personal life and public career of Alexander Hamilton, especially his service as an aide to General George Washington during the Revolutionary War, his participation in the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, his service as Secretary of the Treasury, his New York law practice, and his service as Inspector General of the Army.

December 30, 2024 - During the Revolutionary War and later as the first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton helped shape the United States financial system.