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HAMILTON, Alexander, a Delegate from New York; born on the island of Nevis, British West
Indies, January 11, 1757; immigrated to the United States in 1772, where he
received educational training in the schools of Elizabethtown, N.J., and Kings
College (now Columbia University), New York City; entered the Continental Army
in New York in 1776 as captain of Artillery; appointed aide-de-camp to General
Washington March 1, 1777, and served in that capacity until February 16, 1781;
Member of the Continental Congress in 1782, 1783, and 1788; member of the
Annapolis Convention of 1786; served in the New York State assembly in 1787;
member of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention in 1787 which adopted the
Constitution of the United States; member of the State ratification convention
in 1788; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in New York City;
Secretary of the Treasury in the Cabinet of President Washington 1789-1795;
returned to New York and resumed the practice of law; mortally wounded in a
duel with Aaron Burr at Weehawken on the Hudson, and died in New York City the
following day, July 12, 1804; interment in Trinity Churchyard.
BibliographyChernow, Ron.
Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004; Hamilton,
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Writings. New York: Library of America, 2001.
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