Alexander Hamilton Essay

accomplishments was Alexander Hamilton. Hamilton was an immigrant from Nevis, British West Indies who is often remembered as being the creator of our National Bank System and as Thomas Jefferson’s counterpart. Despite being broadly remembered in history as Thomas Jefferson’s rival and enemy, Alexander Hamilton should be remembered as a hero and an profound scholar for his intellect, ideals, accomplishments as a statesman and as a soldier, and patriotism. Alexander Hamilton was not born into…

On the evening of Sunday, September 18, AHI Charter fellow and beloved Hamilton College History professor, Douglas Ambrose, spoke on “Alexander Hamilton and the Perils of Posterity”. With incredible eloquence, wit and energy he delivered a generous assessment of the honorable luminosity that Alexander Hamilton demonstrated in his public life. It inspired me to write further on Hamilton’s legacy. For Alexander Hamilton, to be seen as trustworthy in the eye of the common people was paramount.…

Free will: Alexander Hamilton began life as an impoverished orphan and worked as hard as he possibly could to rise to the top. He was majorly intelligent and wrote non-stop and was willing to work to get out of the current state he was in. In the exercise of his free will, Hamilton defied the odds of dying alone and poor in the Caribbean and decided to go out and make something of himself. He became a new man in New York with the help of his friends Nicholas Cruger and Reverend Hugh Knox.…

The Political Accomplishments of Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was one of the founding fathers of our country. He was born on January 11, 1757 in Charlestown on the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands, British West Indies (Yost 1). He moved to Elizabethtown, New Jersey in October, 1772 . There he was educated at King's College which later became Columbia University in New York City. During the Revolutionary War, he served four years as General Washington’s Chief of Staff. His…

Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis, British West Indies on January 11th, 1757. Alex was born to Rachel Fawcett Lavien and John Lavien. John Lavien was an abusive husband so Rachel decided to flee their relationship with Alexander and his brother James who was older. Rachel remarried to James Hamilton. When Alex was 10 his father, James, left them with all his debts for Rachel to deal with. Alexander took his first job when he was only 11. Despite his best efforts Alexander’s…

ALEXANDER HAMILTON Madison May History 2010- 06; American History 1 November 10, 2016 When most people think of the founding fathers the first person to come to mind isn’t normally Alexander Hamilton. Although he is one of the only people on U.S. money, being on the ten-dollar bill. Most people think of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Alexander Hamilton is both very interesting and very important. Hamilton is someone you learn about in both history classes…

The book I chose to read was Alexander Hamilton- The Outsider by Jean Fritz. This book was rated at a 9th grade reading level but could be read in grades 6th- 8th depending on the students. There was quite a bit of information crammed into 144 pages and therefore can be useful in many different ways throughout the different age groups, even in the grades below 6th if the information is just taken from it. This being said, this book can be incorporated in many different ways in the classroom. As…

Filling the cabinet with tension, Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of Treasury, and Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State, brought upon new challenges for American politics in the eighteenth century, when they brought two very incompatible visions of what they hoped America’s future would look like to the plate. Additionally, their political and economic differences greatly…

overlooked and underappreciated Founding Father is Alexander Hamilton, who is known for defending the U.S Constitution during its ratification, serving as the first U.S. secretary of treasury and being involved with the first sex scandal of the country. Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11th, 1755, although historians disagree on this birthyear as it could also be 1757 due to some dating on a few documents. In his later years of life, Hamilton would only give his age in multiples of ten,…

Assessment on the Virtue of Alexander Hamilton “How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore...grow up to be a hero and a scholar?” opens the hit Broadway play Hamilton (Miranda). That question sums up the beginning and end of the life of Alexander Hamilton, a Founding Father of the United States, fairly well. He was born into poverty in the British West Indies, where eventually his father left him and his mother died. Nevertheless, thanks to hard work and determination, Hamilton went to college…