Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr Largely sidelined in his role as vice president by Jefferson, Burr decided to run for governor of New York in 1804. After he lost, largely due to the opposition of powerful party rivals, the frustrated Burr fixated on a newspaper article, published during the...
Working for the development and validation of the constitution is one of Hamilton's most prominent works. Hamilton was a lawyer and politician from the state of New York. It was Alexander Hamilton's idea to organize a constitutional convention, inviting delegates of 13 states to endorse...
Letters from Maria to Hamilton were breathless and full of errors (“I once take up the pen to solicit The favor of seing again oh Col hamilton what have I done that you should thus Neglect me”).How would Elizabeth Hamilton react to being betrayed by her husband with such a woman? Sti...
As Secretary of the newly-established Treasury Department, Hamilton sought to reorganize and standardize the procedures of U.S. Customs Houses. A year earlier, the First Congress had passed an act that brought the collection of tariffs and duties under the control of the federal government as out...
Croix newspaper in 1771, the aspiring bard informed the editor, “Sir, I am a youth about seventeen”—an adolescent's way of stating that he was sixteen, which would also tally with the 1755 date. The mass of evidence from the period after Hamilton's arrival in North America does ...
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In 1765 James Hamilton abandoned his family.Destitute, Rachel set up a small shop, and at the age of 11 Alexander went to work, becoming a clerk in the countinghouse of two New York merchants who had recently established themselves at St. Croix. When Rachel died in 1768, Alexander became...
Alexander Hamilton - Financial Reform, US Economy, Treasury: When President Washington in 1789 appointed Hamilton the first secretary of the treasury, Congress asked him to draw up a plan for the “adequate support of the public credit.” Envisaging hims