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Hamilton, Alexander
As an early American statesman, Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher, Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757–1804) has many claims to fame. Hamilton is perhaps best known as the principal author, along with James Madison and John Jay, of The Federalist Papers, a series of articles of fundamental importance in American constitutional history, but Hamilton was also an influential politician and political economist whose views were crucially important in providing the ideological framework of the American Republic.
The illegitimate son of a Scottish merchant, Hamilton was born in Nevis, in the British West Indies. After serving a commercial apprenticeship, he studied at King’s College (now Columbia University), New York, and precociously wrote two pamphlets, A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress (1774) and The Farmer Refuted ...
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