He resigned to practice law and founded the Bank of New York.
After the Revolutionary War, Hamilton served as a delegate from New York state to the Congress of the Confederation in Philadelphia. He then served as an artillery officer in the American Revolutionary War, where he saw military action against the British in the New York and New Jersey campaign, served for years as an aide to General George Washington, and helped secure American victory at the climactic Siege of Yorktown. He pursued his education in New York City where, despite his young age, he was a prolific and widely read pamphleteer advocating for the American revolutionary cause, though an anonymous one.
Posthumous portrait by John Trumbull, 1806 derived from life bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794ġst United States Secretary of the TreasuryĨth Senior Officer of the United States ArmyĬharlestown, Colony of Nevis, British Leeward IslandsĪlexander Hamilton (Januor 1757 – July 12, 1804) was a Nevis-born American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first Secretary of Treasury from 1789 to 1795 during George Washington's presidency.īorn out of wedlock in Charlestown, Nevis, Hamilton was orphaned as a child and taken in by a prosperous merchant.
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