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Alexander Hamilton - Legends of America - Founding Fathers - One Minute History

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January 11th, 1755 - Alexander Hamilton is born in the West Indies. His employers pay for his education at King’s College, now Columbia University. After writing his first political paper, he joins the Continental Army and becomes an advisor to General Washington, leading a victorious charge at Yorktown. After the war, he becomes a lawyer and defends British loyalists before being named delegate to the Continental Congress. 1787 - Hamilton drafts the Federalist Papers, and then signs the U.S. Constitution. Appointed Secretary of the Treasury, he establishes public credit and forms the first Bank of the United States. Aaron Burr challenges Hamilton to a duel for calling him “the most dangerous man in America”. He sustains a mortal wound at the hands of Vice President Burr and dies the following day. Hamilton brokered the ‘Dinner Table Bargain’, created the Coast Guard and is the subject of the hit Broadway musical, “Hamilton.”

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