Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton was an American revolutionary officer, constitutional advocate and first secretary of the treasury. He served on Washington’s staff, helped write the Federalist Papers and designed financial institutions that strengthened the new federal government.

Alexander Hamilton also held the offices or ranks of United States Secretary of the Treasury, Commanding General of the United States Army, and Delegate to the United States Constitutional Convention. Alexander Hamilton belonged to the Hamilton family and operated within United States. Alexander Hamilton was born in Charlestown and died in New York City.

Hourly History’s Alexander Hamilton gives a direct account of Hamilton’s rise from Caribbean immigrant to Continental Army officer, constitutional theorist and first secretary of the treasury. Gore Vidal’s Inventing a Nation places his financial and constitutional ideas beside those of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin and Madison. In Anya Seton’s My Theodosia, Hamilton’s rivalry with Aaron Burr culminates in the duel that destroys Burr’s political future and reshapes Theodosia’s life. Lucia St. Clair Robson’s Shadow Patriots uses the younger Hamilton within the Revolutionary intelligence world, while Robert Harvey’s A Few Bloody Noses places him among the personalities and conflicts of the American Revolution.