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Alexander Hamilton

1757 - 1804

About the Author

Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804) was secretary and aide-de-camp to Washington in 1777-81, a member of the Continental Congress in 1782-83 and 1787-88, a representative from New York to the Annapolis Convention in 1786 and to the Constitutional Convention in 1787, first U. S. secretary of the treasury in 1789-95, and inspector general of the army, with the rank of major general, from 1798 to 1800. His efforts to defeat Aaron Burr for the presidency in 1800-01 and for the governorship of New York in 1804 led to his fatal duel with Burr.

In The Library:

• author: The Federalist (Gideon ed.) (1818)
• author: The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794: Toward the Completion of the American Founding (1793)
• author: The Revolutionary Writings of Alexander Hamilton (2008)
• author: State Papers and Speeches on the Tariff (1790)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), 12 vols. (1904)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 1 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 2 (1788)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 3 (1791)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 4 (1790)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 5 (1793)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 6 (1795)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 7 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 8 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 9 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 10 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 11 (1774)
• author: The Works of Alexander Hamilton, (Federal Edition), vol. 12 (1774)