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Hamilton was born in 1757 on the island of Nevis, in the group of Leeward Islands, of the British Virgin Islands. He was the illegitimate child of a marriage between a poor Scottish street vendor of aristocratic descent and a mother of French and English origin
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Orphaned as a child by the death of his mother and the abandonment of his father, Hamilton was raised by a senior cousin and later by a thriving family of merchants
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Recognizing their ambition and intelligence, their benefactors raised a fund for their education. In 1772, with letters of introduction, Hamilton traveled to New York. The benefactors he met there arranged for him to go to the Barber Academy in Elizabethtown (New Jersey)
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He will become the General's "field assistant". With only twenty years old he is the second commander of the independent revolution against the British Empire for the richest colony.
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In 1780 he married Elizabeth Schuyler, daughter of division general and landowner of the Hudson Valley Philip Schuyler, with whom he had eight children: Philip, Angelica, Alexander, James Alexander, John Church, William Stephen and Eliza
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After fighting for years, emerging victorious from all battles such as Yorktown, is promoted to colonel and the same year left the army to devote himself to politics.
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Elected by Washington First Secretary of the Treasury of the nation (1789-1795), from that position he organized banking, establishing the First Bank of the United States
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Hamilton quoted from The Wealth of Nations and used the French physiocrats as an example to reject agrarianism and physiocratic theory; respectively.
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Washington was not willing to leave Mount Vernon unless it was to command an army in the field, Hamilton was de facto army chief, to Adams' deep dissatisfaction.
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Alexander Hamilton died in NY from wounds made with a bullet, caused by a duel against Aaron Burr
