Alexander Hamilton
Over two hundred years before Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Hamilton” hit Broadway, our “Ten dollar founding father without a father” was making waves by being one of the most controversial figures in Colonial America.
Alexander Hamilton became one of America’s most influential founding fathers by establishing the modern American economy and being one of the strongest advocates for the United States’ Constitution, as well as doing many other things to make America the great nation that it is today.
Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean out of wedlock to a father who left. At the age of twelve, Hamilton’s mother got sick and passed away leaving him an orphan. By the age of 14 Alexander Hamilton’s prowess with numbers and writing convinced a shipping company to put him in charge of charting ships, and soon after the man in charge of that shipping company paid for Hamilton to attend Queen’s college in hopes that he would return to help manage his company. He had no idea that by paying for this young man’s college, he would be giving Hamilton the opportunity to change America forever.
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Hamilton took note of this issue and tackled it head on by finding two other men: John Jay (The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) and James Madison to aid him in writing a series of essays in support of the new Constitution. These essays that Hamilton and his colleagues wrote under the single name “Publius” are most commonly known as the Federalist Papers, and their job was to inform the general public on the purpose of the Constitution. Hamilton was the greatest contributor of these Essays. Out of the 85 written, Hamilton authored 51. After the essays were released, all thirteen colonies ratified the United State’s
Over two hundred years before Lin Manuel-Miranda’s “Hamilton” hit Broadway, our “Ten dollar founding father without a father” was making waves by being one of the most controversial figures in Colonial America.
Alexander Hamilton became one of America’s most influential founding fathers by establishing the modern American economy and being one of the strongest advocates for the United States’ Constitution, as well as doing many other things to make America the great nation that it is today.
Alexander Hamilton was born in the Caribbean out of wedlock to a father who left. At the age of twelve, Hamilton’s mother got sick and passed away leaving him an orphan. By the age of 14 Alexander Hamilton’s prowess with numbers and writing convinced a shipping company to put him in charge of charting ships, and soon after the man in charge of that shipping company paid for Hamilton to attend Queen’s college in hopes that he would return to help manage his company. He had no idea that by paying for this young man’s college, he would be giving Hamilton the opportunity to change America forever.
Before the constitution was ever drafted, our country lived under a very limited government known as the Articles of …show more content…
Hamilton took note of this issue and tackled it head on by finding two other men: John Jay (The first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court) and James Madison to aid him in writing a series of essays in support of the new Constitution. These essays that Hamilton and his colleagues wrote under the single name “Publius” are most commonly known as the Federalist Papers, and their job was to inform the general public on the purpose of the Constitution. Hamilton was the greatest contributor of these Essays. Out of the 85 written, Hamilton authored 51. After the essays were released, all thirteen colonies ratified the United State’s