"When Hamilton Takes Command" Topic

""ALEXANDER HAMILTON is the least appreciated of the founding fathers because he never became president," says Willard Sterne Randall, a professor of humanities at ChamplainCollege in Burlington, Vermont, and the author of Alexander Hamilton: A Life, released this month from HarperCollins Publishers. "Washington set the mold for the presidency, but the institution wouldn't have survived without Hamilton."

Hamilton was born January 11, 1755, on the island of Nevis in the West Indies, the illegitimate son of James Hamilton, a merchant from Scotland, and Rachel Fawcett Levine, a doctor's daughter who was divorced from a plantation owner. His unmarried parents separated when Hamilton was 9, and he went to live with his mother, who taught him French and Hebrew and how to keep the accounts in a small dry goods shop by which she supported herself and Hamilton's older brother, James. She died of yellow fever when Alexander was 13…"

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Armand

There is a saying that we live the way Jefferson wanted us too and the Fourth of July and the way Hamilton wanted us too for the rest of the year.

I do not consider him unappreciated. He is on the US $10 USD bill. Not all presidents made onto money. I am not sure that they all made a stamp either.
Putting some one on a stamp used to be the prime way to say they accomplished something.
Hamilton was on a stamp and is on money

Thanks

Armand

It has been said that America pursues Jeffersonian ends using Hamiltonian means.

(smile)

Armand