Alexander Hamilton

Monday, January 01, 1787

Alexander Hamilton was born in the late 1750's in Nevis and immigrated to the United States in 1772. Hamilton was a writer who contributed to The Federalist Papers and a statesman who shaped the U.S. Constitution. Considered one of the Founding Fathers, Hamilton served as the New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention (1787) and was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States (1789).