Alexander Hamilton

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Born : January 11, 1755 or 1757

1765 business assignment led Hamilton's father to move the family to Christiansted, St. Croix;

Mom got a severe fever and died on February 19, 1768,

I was left in charge of the firm for five months in 1771

I arrived, by way of Boston, at a grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey, in the autumn of 1772.

In 1775, after the first engagement of American troops with the British in Boston, I joined a New York volunteer militia company called the Hearts of Oak,

I joined as Washington's aide on March 1, 1777 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel

In spring 1779, Hamilton asked his friend John Laurens to find him a wife in South Carolina

Hamilton found his own bride on December 14, 1780 when he married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of General Philip Schuyler, and thus joined one of the richest and most political families in the state of New York.

July 31, 1781, Washington relented, and Hamilton was given command of a New York light infantry battalion.

After Yorktown, Hamilton resigned his commission. He was elected to the Congress of the Confederation as a New York representative beginning in November 1782

On March 15, Washington defused the Newburgh situation by giving a speech to the officers.[35] Congress ordered the Army officially disbanded in April 1783.

In June 1783, a different group of disgruntled soldiers from Lancaster, Pennsylvania sent Congress a petition demanding their back pay.

Hamilton resigned from Congress, and in July 1783 was admitted to the New York Bar after several months of self-directed education

In 1784, he founded the Bank of New York, now the oldest ongoing banking organization in the United States.

1787, Hamilton served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature and was the first delegate chosen to the Constitutional Convention.

He then took a highly active part in the successful campaign for the document's ratification in New...