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Alexander Hamilton. Born January 11, 1755 or 1757 (Nevis, British West Indies) Died July 12, 1804 (Weehawken, New Jersey) Secretary of the U.S. treasury, political leader. As the nation's first secretary of the treasury under President George Washington (1732–1799; served 1789–97; see entry in volume 2), Alexander Hamilton mapped out an ...
Beginning in 1790 with Alexander Hamilton 's reports to Congress, the national government began to shape the country's future direction and identity. Hamilton submitted three reports to Congress from 1790 to 1791 that charted a vision of the early American republic. As secretary of the treasury in George Washington 's administration, Hamilton ...
Hamilton made a case that, complementing America's vast agricultural sector, manufacturing, and especially the introduction of machine production, would contribute to "The Produce and Revenue of the Society" (Alexander Hamilton, "Report on Manufactures," quoted in Cooke, ed., The Reports of Alexander Hamilton, p. 127). He concluded that the ...
Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812-1883) was a U.S. congressman, vice president of the Confederacy, and briefly governor of Georgia. Alexander H. Stephens was born on Feb. 11, 1812, in Wilkes County, Ga. Sickly almost from infancy and orphaned at the age of 14, Stephens received little education until he went to a small academy in Washington, Ga.
The Federalist Party never again held power at the national level after 1800 in the election triumph that Jefferson called a "revolution." The death of Alexander Hamilton in 1804 killed the one Federalist leader who had youth, national stature, and significant popular support. The extended influence of the Federalist Party lay in the judiciary.
FEDERALIST PAPERS. The Federalist Papers, a series of eighty-five essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, were intended to win public support for the Constitution by explaining in detail how the proposed system of government would work. The essays, signed with the pseudonym "Publius," appeared in several New York ...
HAMILTON'S ECONOMIC PLANIn 1790 and 1791, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton presented four major reports that dealt with the financial, social, and constitutional future of the United States. Three were public documents, presented to Congress as proposals for policies that Congress might enact. Source for information on Hamilton's ...
Name variations: Betsey Hamilton; Mrs. Alexander Hamilton. Born Elizabeth Schuyler in 1757; died around 1854; daughter of General Philip Schuyler; married Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804, American statesman and U.S. secretary of the treasury), on December 14, 1780; children: Philip (d. Source for information on Hamilton, Elizabeth Schuyler (1757 ...
Alexander Hamilton to President George Washington, August 2, 1794"> a competent force of militia should be called forth and employed to suppress the insurrection and support the civil authority in effectuating obedience to the laws and punishment of offenders. alexander hamilton to president george washington, august 2, 1794
Alexander Hamilton, American statesman, member of the Constitutional Convention (1787), coauthor of the federalist, first secretary of the Treasury (1789–1795), and leading member of the Federalist party in New York, was born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. He came to New York in 1773 and enrolled in King's College; he ...