Alexander Hamilton was born and spent part of his childhood in Charlestown, the capital of the island of Nevis in the Leeward Islands (then part of the British West Indies). Hamilton and his older brother James Jr. (1753–1786) were bor

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The Church of England denied membership to Alexander and James Hamilton Jr.—and education in the church school—because their parents were not legally married. They received "individual tutoring" and classes in a private school led by a Jewish headmistress.

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Early military career
In 1775, after the first engagement of American troops with the British at Lexington and Concord, Hamilton and other King's College

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Congress of the Confederation
After Yorktown, Hamilton returned to New York and resigned his commission in March 1782. He passed the bar in July after six months of self-directed education. He also accepted an offer from Robert Morristo

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President George Washington appointed Hamilton as the first United States secretary of the treasuryon September 11, 1789. He left office on the last day of January 1795. Much of the structure of the government of the United States was worked out in those five

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1796 presidential election
Hamilton's resignation as Secretary of the Treasury in 1795 did not remove him from public life. With the resumption of his law practice, he remained

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Constitutional Convention and ratification of the Constitution
In 1787, Hamilton served as assemblyman from New York County in the New York State Legislature and was chosen as a delegate for the Constitutional Conventionby his father-in-law Philip

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