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 Alexander Hamilton - definition of Alexander Hamilton in Encyclopedia
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American statesman, journalist, and lawyer.
Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indies island of Nevis.
Relations between Hamilton and Washington's successor, John Adams, were frequently strained and Hamilton's attempts to frustrate Adams' adoption as presidential candidate of the Federalist Party split the party and contributed to the victory of the Jeffersonian Republicans in the election of 1800.
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 Hamilton-Burr duel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When the electoral college deadlocked in the election of 1800, Hamilton's maneuvering in the House of Representatives caused Thomas Jefferson to be named President and Burr Vice President.
Hamilton campaigned viciously against Burr, who was running as an independent, causing him to lose to Morgan Lewis, a Republican endorsed by Hamilton.
The conflict began in 1791, when Burr captured a Senate seat from Philip Schuyler, Hamilton's father-in-law, who would have supported his federalist policies (Alexander Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury at the time).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton-Burr_duel   (913 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton was born on the West Indian island of Nevis on January 11, 1757, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien.
Alexander Hamilton (1757?-1804), American statesman, best known for his fiscal policies settling the finances of the American Revolution, for his role as the principal author of The Federalist papers, and for his advocacy of a strong central government.
Hamilton then turned his energies to securing the ratification of the Constitution in New York; for this purpose he enlisted the help of John Jay and James Madison in writing the essays that were subsequently collected and published under the title of The Federalist.
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 Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis.
Following the capitulation of General Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown, Hamilton was appointed a member of Congress.
Alexander Hamilton's contributions to the United States during this early period will not be forgotten any time soon.
http://www.ushistory.org/brandywine/special/art08.htm   (2483 words)

  
 HamiltonBio
Alexander Hamilton On the Adoption of the Constitution, http://www.nationalcenter.org/AlexanderHamilton.html (providing a portrait of Hamilton at his desk).
Alexander Hamilton was born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11
On January 31, 1795 Hamilton resigned from his position of Secretary of the Treasury and returned to the practice of law in New York.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/HamiltonBio.htm   (3045 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was one of the most influential of the United States' founding fathers.
Hamilton was obviously precocious, and his guardian sought to enroll him in the College of New Jersey at Princeton.
Hamilton was mourned by his countrymen as one who had devoted his life to the nation's growth in freedom and prosperity.
http://www.americanrevwar.homestead.com/files/HAMILT.HTM   (1349 words)

  
 Introduction
Alexander Hamilton was born in 1755 in the British West Indies and mortally wounded in a duel with Aaron Burr on July 11, 1804, in Weehawken, New Jersey.
Yet while Hamilton and the Federalists were able to seize the reins of power in the 1790s and institute many of their programs, it is Jefferson who, in the long run, captured the imagination and love of the American people.
Hamilton concerned himself with the intricacies of finance and federal power; Jefferson founded the University of Virginia and invented the dumbwaiter.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/ham/hamintro.html   (670 words)

  
 Hamilton, Alexander on Encyclopedia.com
Hamilton was perhaps the most powerful of the Federalists, but he was not in complete command of the party (he had even resigned his cabinet post in 1795, largely for financial reasons).
It was Hamilton who proposed at the unsuccessful Annapolis Convention (1786) that a constitutional convention be called at Philadelphia in May, 1787, and he was one of New York's three delegates when it was convened.
In New York, Hamilton was a powerful constitutional supporter, fighting vigorously against the opposition of George Clinton and becoming perhaps the strongest advocate of the new instrument of government aside from James Madison.
http://encyclopedia.infonautics.com/html/H/HamiltA1lex.asp   (1472 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton Quotes - The Quotations Page
Alexander Hamilton, Speech on 21 June 1788 urging ratification of the Constitution in New York.
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Alexander_Hamilton   (241 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton Writings and Biography
In 1787 Hamilton served in the legislature, which appointed him as a delegate to the convention.
Hamilton's part in New York's ratification the next year was substantial, though he felt the Constitution was deficient in many respects.
It pitted Hamilton and the Federalists against Jefferson and Madison and the Democratic-Republicans.
http://www.lexrex.com/bios/ahamilton.htm   (960 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Alexander Hamilton
It was Hamilton who enlisted Madison and Jay to the task in the first place; when Madison and Jay departed from the project, Hamilton continued writing tirelessly.
Returning intermittently to his law practice through the 1790s, the hiatus from public life Hamilton took after the election of 1800 was cut short by an untimely and infamous death at the hands of Aaron Burr.
Following ratification, Washington appointed Hamilton the first Secretary of the Treasury.
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/authors/about_alexander_hamilton.html   (1326 words)

  
 ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Alexander Hamilton, who represented New York at the Constitutional Convention, was a brilliant political theorist and a leading advocate of centralized government.
Hamilton took up the study of the law in early 1782.
Hamilton dutifully reported for orders to Washington's Chief of Artillery, Colonel (later Major General) Henry Knox, and his men served alongside Knox's gunners throughout the fall campaign.
http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/hamilton.htm   (1969 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton - Ron Chernow - Penguin Group (USA)
Hamilton thought the president and the executive branch should be the principal engine of government whereas his critics thought the House of Representatives should lead the country.
"Alexander Hamilton was one of the most brilliant men of his brilliant time, and one of the most fascinating figures in all of American history.
A generation older than Hamilton, John Adams was already a leader of the Continental Congress when Hamilton was still an undergraduate.
http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,0_0143034758,00.html   (3384 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Modernized Money
Although Hamilton's support was key to Jefferson winning the presidency over his running mate Aaron Burr in the election of 1800, Hamilton saw his power dwindling.
Hamilton returned to New York, a strongly antifederalist state, to lobby for the Constitution.
Hamilton got his chance when he became one of the three New York delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2006-01/hamilton.html   (1896 words)

  
 ALEXANDER HAMILTON - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER HAMILTON
His father, James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St Christopher, was a younger son of Alexander Hamilton of Grange, Lanarkshire, by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir R. Pollock.
Riethmullers Hamilton and his Contemporaries (1864), written during the Civil War, is sympathetic, but rather speculative.
One intrigue into which he drifted in 1791, with a Mrs Reynolds, led to the blackmailing of Hamilton by her husband; and when this rascal, shortly afterwards, got into trouble for fraud, his relations with Hamilton were unscrupulously misrepresented for political purposes by some of Hamiltons opponents.
http://www.1911ency.org/H/HA/HAMILTON_ALEXANDER.htm   (5491 words)

  
 Digital History
Hamilton responded to the charge that a bank was unconstitutional by formulating the doctrine of "implied powers." He argued that Congress had the power to create a bank because the Constitution granted the federal government authority to do anything "necessary and proper" to carry out its constitutional functions (in this case its fiscal duties).
Jefferson's success resulted from many factors, but one of the most important was his ability to paint Hamilton as an elitist defender of deferential social order and an admirer of monarchical Britain, while picturing himself as an ardent proponent of republicanism, equality, and economic opportunity.
In exchange for southern votes, Hamilton promised to support locating the national capital on the banks of the Potomac River, the border between two southern states, Virginia and Maryland.
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/article_display.cfm?HHID=6   (825 words)

  
 Amazon.com: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American: Books: Richard Brookhiser
Hamilton was one of the epochal figures of the Revolutionary period?he collaborated with Madison on the Federalist papers, served as secretary of the treasury under Washington and, along with Jefferson, is largely responsible for the modern two-party system?but he was also one of the most controversial.
A signer of the Constitution and author of roughly two-thirds of the Federalist Papers, Hamilton became the first secretary of the treasury at the age of 32.
Brilliant, visionary, and enormously articulate, Hamilton was quick to argue his positions, most notably in "The Federalist Papers," in a series of anonymous letters to newspapers, and in the courtroom.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684863316?v=glance   (2003 words)

  
 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Biographies: A. Hamilton 41
Burr, who at the time of the disclosure had been defeated by Hamilton's candidate in the gubernatorial election, wrote an ominous letter to Hamilton demanding an explanation of the "still more despicable opinion." Hamilton was evasive in his reply: ".
After all the accusations that he had taken advantage of his own policies for personal profit, Hamilton was close to broke when he died.
Burr received satisfaction at Weehawken on July 11, 1804, when he mortally wounded Hamilton on the first shot.
http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/B/hamilton/hamil41.htm   (727 words)

  
 Hamilton Lives
Alexander Hamilton was one of the most important of the Founding Fathers, perhaps second only to General Washington.
Modern Chautauqua is a blending of impersonation with scholarship recently brought to near-perfection by the great Jefferson scholar, Clay Jenkinson.
Jefferson wrote the brilliant Declaration of Independence, it was Mr.
http://www.hamiltonlives.com   (579 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Featured Article
Hamilton's system was one of the founding's great achievements, along with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Continental Army.
Enough of Hamilton's peers acquiesced in his handiwork so that the country got off on the right foot.
His successes and Duer's fall convinced Jefferson and other Founders that Hamilton was a transatlantic twin of the evil Robert Walpole.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110006905   (1454 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Dueled to the Death
Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Dueled to the Death
On the morning of July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr raised their dueling pistols and took aim.
Burr might have been the president instead of vice president, had it not been for Hamilton's interference.
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/nation/hamburr_1   (107 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton Historical Society (AHHS)
On the negative side, a powerful movement is afoot to remove Hamilton from the $10 bill in favor of former President Ronald Reagan.
The highpoint of this media blitz was the Duel commemoration and reenactment held over the bicentennial weekend, July 10-12, in New York and New Jersey.
Recent months have been both exciting and trying for the legacy of Alexander Hamilton.
http://www.hamiltonsociety.org   (897 words)

  
 Hamilton - Amazon.com: Alexander Hamilton: Books: Ron Chernow
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Alexander Hamilton Institute's Employment Law Resource Center publications and free information cover aspects of employment law and Human
Hamilton County Tennessee, Department of Education - WWW.HCDE.ORG
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 Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton
The House of Representatives (con't) (Hamilton or Madison)
The Apportionment of Members Among the States (Hamilton or Madison)
The Alleged Tendency of the New Plan to Elevate the Few at the Expense of the Many Considered in Connection with Representation HAMILTON (Hamilton or Madison)
http://www.foundingfathers.info/federalistpapers/hamilton.htm   (499 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton School
Alexander Hamilton Elementary School was started with four rooms constructed in the fall of 1957.
Alexander Hamilton School | Calendar of Events | Hamilton Activities | District Schools
The site was given to the city and an addition to Alexander Hamilton School was constructed to house the Columbus/King students as well as improving the present Hamilton School building.
http://www.icongrp.com/~ahamilton   (155 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton (1931)
It's an intellectual drama, with a focus on Hamilton as an honorable man, and a great treasury secretary.
The conceit of making up a "Senator Roberts" who sets up the plot to bring Hamilton and the Assumption Bill down, is such an outlandish whitewash.
Even though we now know that Hamilton was a knowing and frequent philanderer, this movie sets him up as a victim, who would never have strayed had he not been the victim of a plot by his enemies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0021595   (414 words)

  
 Alexander & Hamilton, Inc. - A Global full service credit management and debt recovery company
Vice-President of Alexander and Hamilton, Inc. elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the World Trade Center of New Orleans.
All Rights Reserved © 2004 Alexander and Hamilton, Inc.
As a valued customer of Alexander and Hamilton, you can find out about the latest information regarding your accounts placed at Alexander and Hamilton.
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 Book Reviews - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton brings to life a man who was central to the formation of the United States, but is most often remembered, if at all, for being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
Book Reviews - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
This intense behavior also led to an affair with a married woman whose husband blackmailed him, and his ultimate undoing in his feud with Aaron Burr.
http://www.reviewsofbooks.com/alexander_hamilton   (192 words)

  
 AHI's Employment Law Resource Center - For Human Resources Personnel
FED I.D. Copyright © 2006 Alexander Hamilton Institute
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 Colonial Hall: Biography of Alexander Hamilton, Page 1
Alexander Hamilton by Charles Willson Peale, from life, c.
The chief debater in the convention which framed the federal constitution, and the chief advocate of that instrument after its completion, was Alexander Hamilton.
Throughout the campaign, which terminated in the capture of Lord Cornwallis, Colonel Hamilton commanded a battalion of light infantry.
http://www.colonialhall.com/hamilton/hamilton.php   (496 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Alexander Hamilton (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
More articles from AllRefer Reference on Alexander Hamilton
AllRefer.com - Alexander Hamilton (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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 Alexander Hamilton Discussion
Welcome to the discussion board for the website Alexander Hamilton on the Web.
This place is intended for discussion of the Hamilton's life, works and times.
This is a permanent MothBoard and will not expire at a designated time.
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 Bed & Breakfast Victorian Inn located in Hudson Valley, New York - Alexander Hamilton House
Bed and Breakfast Victorian Inn located in Hudson Valley, New York - Alexander Hamilton House
On a cliff overlooking the Hudson River, sits The Alexander Hamilton House, a short walk to the village of Croton-on-Hudson.
From our inn, you have easy access to historic houses, West Point Military Academy, wineries, hiking, biking and shopping galore.
http://www.alexanderhamiltonhouse.com   (92 words)

  
 Hamilton's Pamphlets
And as Bubblehead noted in his follow up, he was aquitted of the other two charges...no surprise to any of us who have served with his type...
Why can't they just go back to California and leave us alone...
Lynn Swann is scaring the crap out of some weak Republican Congressman in Pennsylvania and they want him to go away...
http://hamiltonspamphlets.blogs.com   (2912 words)

  
 Alexander Hamilton on the Web
This site holds more than 200 resources about Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury, part-author of the Federalist Papers and advocate of a strong central government.
Under Biographical Issues you can find sections on his Revolutionary War service, Christian Constitutional Society, his sexuality and other topics.
If you like I can keep you up to date on other American history sites, such as Andrew Jackson on the Web and D-Day on the Web.
http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/hamilton   (186 words)

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