Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, statesman, journalist, lawyer, and soldier. One of the United States' most prominent and brilliant early constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention and the principal author of the Federalist Papers, which successfully defended the U.S. Constitution to skeptical New Yorkers. He also put the new United States of America onto a sound economic footing as its first and most influential Secretary of the Treasury, establishing the First Bank of the United States, public credit and the foundations for American capitalism and stock and commodity exchanges.

External links

• Hamilton's Congressional biography
• The New York Historical Society's Alexander Hamilton Exhibit
• Alexander Hamilton: Debate over a National Bank (Feb 23 1791)
• 1911 EB Article on Hamilton an early twentieth century panegyric.
• Life and Times of Alexander Hamilton by Samuel M. Smucker a nineteenth century prose poem
• Alexander Hamilton by C.C. Hazewell: a 19-th century panegyric.
• Alexander Hamilton by Henry Cabot Lodge: another nineteenth-century panegyric.
• Jrank Alexander Hamilton by Encyclopedia Britannica in 1911