research now indicates that he was born at least two years earlier in 1755. He was the son of James

Hamilton(1752-99), a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien (1729-69). After his mothers death and

his fathers bankruptcy in 1769, at age eleven he entered the countinghouse of David Beckman and

Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. There he presented the ability to comprehend the complexities of

commerce and accounting. At the age of fifteen, with the help of friends and family to help pay to further

his education, he studied at a grammar school at Elizabeth, N.J., and the attended King's College now

Hamilton's first public act for the revolutionary movement was in 1774 at a meeting held in the

"fields" now known as City Hall Park in New York City. Hamilton defended the Boston Tea Party and

influenced the callings for the democratically chosen delegates to the First Continental Congress. In the

winter of 1774-75, he wrote anonymously two pamphlets, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress

from the Calumnies of their Enemies and The Farm Refuted, signed in

because of a high level of public confidence in the United States.

1787, was said that two-thirds were from Hamilton. The articles combined bombastic attacks on the

the "real" person tends to get lost in a haze of nostalgia, opportunism, and ignorance. In Hamilton's case,

In 1780, Hamilton married Elizabeth Schuyler(1757-1854), daughter of Gen. Philip John

major victories of his career at the Treasury Department. The financing of the public credit and the

establishment of the new government in 1789, President Washington appointed Hamilton as the first

Hamilton left the army to study law at Albany, N.Y. After serving about one year in the Continental

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