Alexander Hamilton
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- Born:
- January 11, 1755 or January 11, 1757 Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Died:
- July 12, 1804 New York City New York
- Title / Office:
- Continental Congress (1788), United States Continental Congress (1787), United States Continental Congress (1783), United States Continental Congress (1782), United States
- Political Affiliation:
- Federalist Party
- Awards And Honors:
- Hall of Fame (1915)
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Alexander Hamilton, (born January 11, 1755/57, Nevis, British West Indies—died July 12, 1804, New York, New York, U.S.), 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 foremost champion of a strong central government for the new United States. He was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr. Hamilton’s father was James Hamilton, a drifting trader and son of Alexander Hamilton, the laird of Cambuskeith, Ayrshire, Scotland; his mother was Rachel Fawcett Lavine, the daughter of a French Huguenot physician and ...(100 of 3374 words)