1757-1804 U.S. lawyer and statesman. He was the principal author of The Federalist (1787-1788) and the first secretary of the U.S. Treasury (1789-1795).
None of the Founding Fathers came from such unpromising origins: three years before the American Revolution, Hamilton was an illegitimate orphan working in the Virgin Islands as a ...
Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, a Founding Father, economist, and political philosopher.