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Alexander Hamilton is a 2004 biography of American statesman Alexander Hamilton, written by biographer Ron Chernow.Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, was an instrumental promoter of the U.S. Constitution, founder of the nation's financial system, and its first Secretary of the Treasury.
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 [a] – July 12, 1804) was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.
Madison, who is now acknowledged as the father of the Constitution — despite his repeated rejection of this honor during his lifetime, [17] became a leading member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia (1789–1797), secretary of state (1801–1809), and ultimately the fourth president of the United States (1809–1817).
Alexander Hamilton’s feud with fellow Founding Father Thomas Jefferson is well-chronicled, both in academic literature and on stage, but he didn’t tell Jefferson he wanted to hit him with a chair.
The Ideas and Influence of Alexander Hamilton in Essays on the Early Republic: 1789-1815. Ed. Leonard W. Levy and Carl Siracusa. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974. Burstein, Andrew and Isenberg, Nancy. 2010. Madison and Jefferson. New York: Random House; Chernow, Ron (2004). Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 1-59420-009-2.
The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society has been hosting the Celebrate Hamilton program since 2012 to commemorate the Burr–Hamilton Duel and Alexander Hamilton's life and legacy. [67] In his historical novel Burr (1973), author Gore Vidal recreates an elderly Aaron Burr visiting the dueling ground in Weehawken. Burr begins to reflect, for ...
Nov. 27—We all thought we knew why Alexander Hamilton was important. After all, his face is on the $10 bill. And those of us who paid attention in history class knew he was killed in a duel. But ...
Founders Online is a research website providing free access to a digitized collection representing the papers of seven of the most influential figures in the founding of the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Among the 185,000 documents available through the website's searchable database are the papers of John Adams , Benjamin Franklin , Alexander ...