ALEXANDER+HAMILTON

=ALEXANDER HAMILTON author Jessica G.=

Alexander Hamilton(1775-1804) was born in the British West Indies.Hamilton worked as a clerk when he turned ten. Washington turned to Hamilton to be Secretary of the Treasury. Hamilton managed the governments money and later aid to General Washington during the Revolutionary War. Hamilton moved up in the army and the in political life. Hamilton was well educated. Hamilton was the only New Yorker to sign the U.S. Constitution and had to compete with Jefferson's Democratic Republican Party.He was one of the Founding Fathers, Economist, and Political Philosopher. Hamilton was killed by fighting with Aaron Burr.