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	Alexander Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hamilton also wrote a pamphlet which was highly critical of Adams (although it closed with a tepid endorsement) which may have hurt Adams's 1800 reelection campaign and split the Federalist Party, contributing to the victory of the Democratic-Republican Party, led by Jefferson, in the election of 1800.
		Hamilton argued that fls' natural faculties were as good as those of free whites; and forestalled objections by citing Frederick the Great and others as praising obedience and lack of cultivation in soldiers; he also argued that if the Americans didn't do this, the British would (as they had elsewhere).
		Alexander Hamilton is sometimes considered the "patron-saint" of the American School of economic philosophy that, accoridng to one historian, dominated economic policy after 1861.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Hamilton (5382 words)

	Alexander Hamilton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hamilton was born on the West Indies of Nevis the son of James Hamilton a businessman from Scotland and Rachel Fawcet Lavien was then married to another man. His abandoned the family and his mother died Hamilton was in his early teens.
		Hamilton's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury 1795 did not remove him from public With the resumption of his law practice remained close to Washington as an advisor friend and he is believed to have Washington in the latter's composition of his Farewell Address.
		Relations between Hamilton and Washington's successor John Adams were frequently strained and Hamilton's attempts frustrate Adams' adoption as presidential candidate of Federalist Party split the party and contributed to victory of the Jeffersonian Republicans in the election of 1800.
	www.freeglossary.com /Alexander_Hamilton (1819 words)

	Alexander Hamilton
		Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis.
		Hamilton now led a group of eight cavalrymen which included Captain Henry Lee, and was about to burn the mill at the small village of Valley Forge when two sentries fired warning shots from their posts.
		Hamilton had no choice but to swim to the other side of the river whereafter he wrote to John Hancock, President of the Continental Congress, the British had potential to be in Philadelphia that evening.
	www.ushistory.org /brandywine/special/art08.htm (2483 words)

	Hamilton, Alexander. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In New York, Hamilton was a powerful constitutional supporter, fighting vigorously against the opposition of George Clinton and becoming perhaps the strongest advocate of the new instrument of government aside from James Madison.
		Hamilton was a well-to-do lawyer and banker (he helped to found the Bank of New York), and his own high connections aroused suspicion among the less conservative; his policies alienated agrarian interests and drew opposition from those who feared concentration of power in the federal government.
		Hamilton was perhaps the most powerful of the Federalists, but he was not in complete command of the party (he had even resigned his cabinet post in 1795, largely for financial reasons).
	www.bartleby.com /65/ha/HamiltAlex.html (856 words)

	Alexander Hamilton - dKosopedia
		Alexander Hamilton was the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and is seen as the ideological progenitor of contemporary American conservatism--believing that human nature was essentially egoistic.
		Alexander Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies on January 11, 1757.
		Hamilton was one of the chief proponents of a strong Federalism, in which a powerful central government would dominate the narrower interests of the citizens in individual states.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Alexander_Hamilton (539 words)

	The Alexander Hamilton Page
		Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1755 (or 1757 by some accounts) in Charleston on the West Indies island of Nevis.
		Hamilton and Laurens are depicted together on the "Surrender of Cornwallis" commemorative U.S. postage stamp released in October of 1981.
		Alexander Hamilton died from the wound on July 12, 1804 in New York City.
	www.lambda.net /~maximum/hamilton.html (621 words)

	HamiltonBio
		Alexander Hamilton was born as a British subject on the island of Nevis in the West Indies on the 11
		Hamilton, by himself, was not a leader for the population.
		Hamilton denounced Burr as "a man of irregular and unsatiable ambition who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government." The denunciations seem to have been largely ignored by Burr until this last defeat.
	www.law.umkc.edu /faculty/projects/ftrials/burr/HamiltonBio.htm (3045 words)

	Alexander Hamilton (SSBN 617)
		Alexander Hamilton-born at Nevis in the Leeward Islands in either 1755 or 1757-emigrated to New York in 1772.
		Hamilton was appointed a delegate from New York to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 though his work at the convention was of little importance.
		Alexander Hamilton formally began her refueling overhaul on 30 November and as of the beginning of 1987, was still at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/submar/ssbn617.htm (1575 words)

	Political Battles
		Hamilton's role in the framing and ratification of the Constitution was a curious one.
		Hamilton is best known for his tenure as Secretary of the Treasury, for it is in that role that he made his most important and lasting contributions to the governance of the nation.
		Hamilton countered, first, that the logistics of tracking down and sorting out competing claims were prohibitively difficult and would discourage nervous foreign investors, and, second, that the bonds needed to be readily transferrable in order to compensate for the lack of hard cash.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~CAP/ham/hampltcs.html (3698 words)

	Major General Alexander Hamilton
		Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies in 1757, to James Hamilton, a Scottish merchant of St. Christopher and Rachel Fawcett.
		Hamilton was very deceptive and dishonorable in his dealings with other government officials, discrediting some of his contemporaries in order to see that his plans, ideas and policies were successful.
		When Burr read statements published by Hamilton to the effect of: he is "a dangerous man and one who ought not to be trusted with the reins of government", it was the final straw.
	www.ushistory.org /valleyforge/served/hamilton.html (1295 words)

	WNYC - Reading Room: Alexander Hamilton
		Hamilton was the supreme double threat among the founding fathers, at once thinker and doer, sparkling theoretician and masterful executive.
		Hamilton rued the day that his grandmother was "captivated by the glitter" of Lavien's appearance and auctioned her daughter off, as it were, to the highest bidder.
		Hamilton." (On the St. Croix tax rolls, she shows up under misspelled variants of Faucette and Lavien.) Stripped of whatever cover of legitimacy had sheltered them, it would have become glaringly evident to Alexander and James, Jr., for the first time that they were "natural" children and that their mother had been a notorious woman.
	www.wnyc.org /books/29537 (10636 words)

	Alexander Hamilton
		Hamilton was born on the West Indian island of Nevis, probably in 1755.
		Hamilton's plans were so comprehensive and so brilliantly useful to commercial expansion that he aroused the opposition of Madison, Jefferson, and others who believed that such a strong government, informally allied as it was with the worldwide trading dominance of Great Britain, would subordinate agriculture and subvert the republican ideals of the American Revolution.
		Hamilton was mourned by his countrymen as one who had devoted his life to the nation's growth in freedom and prosperity.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/HAMILT.HTM (1349 words)

	ALEXANDER HAMILTON
		Hamilton was among the most intellectually gifted of the Founding Fathers, rivaling in ability his arch foe, Thomas Jefferson, but he lacked practical political experience and failed to win support for many of his most cherished ideas.
		Hamilton's childhood was spent on the edge of poverty first on Nevis, the smallest of Britain's Leeward Islands, and later on St. Croix in the Danish Virgin Islands.
		Although not recalled to the staff, Hamilton was given the command of a battalion of elite light infantry for the 1781 campaign.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/RevWar/ss/hamilton.htm (1969 words)

	Alexander Hamilton - Free Online Library
		Alexander Hamilton was born in January 11, 1755 on the West Indies island of Nevis (an island held by the British), the illegitimate child of James Hamilton and Rachel Faucett Lavien.
		Alexander went to a grammar school in Elizabethtown, New Jersey and then studied at King's College (now Columbia) in 1774, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in only one year.
		In 1800, Hamilton kept Aaron Burr from winning the Presidency of the United States by exerting his influence over members of the House of Representatives, who had to vote between Burr and another candidate, Thomas Jefferson, and would thus decide who became President and Vice President.
	hamilton.thefreelibrary.com (527 words)

	Hamilton Lives
		Alexander Hamilton was one of the most important of the Founding Fathers, perhaps second only to General Washington.
		Hamilton whose vision and spirit continue to dominate the American culture and economy today.
		Hamilton that is as deep today as it was 200 years ago.
	www.hamiltonlives.com (579 words)

	HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1... - Online Information article about HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1...
		Hamilton's influence was in fact predominant with Washington (so far as any man could have predominant influence).
		democracy, Hamilton hated French democracy and sympathized with British aristocracy and order; but and in their conflicts over Hamilton's financial measures they organized, on the basis of varying tenets and ideals which have never ceased to conflict in American politics, the two great parties of Federalists and Democrats (or Democratic-Republicans).
		Hamilton stigmatized his great opponent as a political fanatic; but actualist as he claimed to be,' Hamilton could not see, or would not concede, the predominating forces in American life, and would uncompromisingly have minimized the two great political conquests of the colonial period—local self-government and democracy.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /GUI_HAN/HAMILTON_ALEXANDER_1757_1804_.html (5589 words)

	Amazon.com: Alexander Hamilton: Books: Ron Chernow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hamilton’s achievements as first Secretary of the Treasury, co-author of The Federalist Papers, and member of the Constitutional Convention were clouded after his death by strident claims that he was an arrogant, self-serving monarchist.
		Hamilton quickly saw that such a concept was operationally unworkable and would prevent the development of a liquid market in tradable government securities.
		Hamilton was a rare revolutionary: fearless warrior, master administrator and blazing administrator.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594200092?v=glance (2399 words)

	Amazon.com: ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American: Books: Richard Brookhiser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hamilton was one of the epochal figures of the Revolutionary period?he collaborated with Madison on the Federalist papers, served as secretary of the treasury under Washington and, along with Jefferson, is largely responsible for the modern two-party system?but he was also one of the most controversial.
		Hamilton emerges as a man who saw the forest through the trees, one step ahead of his political opponents until they eventually caught up to him in the early 19th century.
		Hamilton persuaded Americans to accept a constitution that was (and is) much more conservative than the general temper of the majority of the American people.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684863316?v=glance (2319 words)

	Alexander Hamilton Historical Society (AHHS) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On the negative side, a powerful movement is afoot to remove Hamilton from the $10 bill in favor of former President Ronald Reagan.
		The idea is to build a grass-roots network that joins together all of the everyday admirers, students, teachers, and historians who are captivated by the dazzling life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton.
		The $10 bill is Hamilton’s most important living memorial; removing him would not only degrade his great legacy, it would debase American history.
	www.hamiltonsociety.org (897 words)

	Book Reviews - Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
		Ron Chernow's biography of Alexander Hamilton brings to life a man who was central to the formation of the United States, but is most often remembered, if at all, for being killed in a duel with Aaron Burr in 1804.
		Hamilton was a fiery writer and debater who believed in a strong central government, often quarreling with Jefferson, Madison, and other founding fathers.
		The Rocky Mountain News calls it "a book that does such a fine job, not only of bringing Alexander Hamilton to full and varied life but of providing the reader, as well, with a richly textured picture of the America that was emerging from the blood and turmoil of the Revolutionary War."
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /alexander_hamilton (192 words)

	The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Hamilton
		Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America; Arnold A.
		A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr; Willard Sterne Randall,
		Hamilton, William Angus — also known as William A. Hamilton — of Virginia.
	politicalgraveyard.com /bio/hamilton.html (1772 words)

	Alexander Hamilton
		Alexander HAMILTON - HAMILTON, Alexander (1757—1804) HAMILTON, Alexander, a Delegate from New York; born on the...
		Alexander Hamilton: Bibliography - Bibliography See the definitive edition of Hamilton's papers (ed.
		In memoriam: Alexander Hamilton Church's system of 'scientific machine rates' at Hans Renold Ltd., c.1901-c.1920.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0822513.html (210 words)

	Alexander Hamilton (1931) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		from Forest Ranch, CA ALEXANDER HAMILTON, the first Treasury Secretary of the new American Republic, strives mightily against tremendous odds, political and personal, to achieve his great goal: financial solidity and respect for the emerging nation.
		First, he was much too old (Hamilton was in his 30's at the time of the scandal; Arliss turned 63 in 1931).
		But this is not supposed to be a physical reconstruction of the historical Hamilton, but rather a look into the heart and character of the fellow.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0021595 (431 words)

	Web Biographies (Alexander Hamilton on the Web) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A Biography of Alexander Hamilton by Lisa Marie DeCarolis, for From Revolution to Reconstruction, a project at the University of Groningen, Holland.
		New York Founding Fathers with a long bio on Hamilton.
		To call Hamilton the most ardent "nationalist" of his day is a little off--anyway it needs explanation.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /hamilton/1.html (271 words)

	Alexander Hamilton on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This site holds more than 200 resources about Alexander Hamilton (1755–1804), founding father, first Secretary of the Treasury, part-author of the Federalist Papers and advocate of a strong central government.
		New feature: I have a added a gallery of 37 Pictures of Hamilton, found here and there on a web.
		Add yourself to my Alexander Hamilton list, and get an update when features are added.
	www.isidore-of-seville.com /hamilton (186 words)

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