First Secretary of the Treasury, and aide to George Washington who was famously killed in a duel to the death by Vice President Aaron Burr. He was an active participant in the Philadelphia Convention, which produced the constitution, and he wrote 51 of the 85 installments of the Federalist Papers, which supported the new constitution.
He resigned from being the Secretary of the Treasury after an extra-marital affair from his past became public.
He was appointed by John Adams as Senior Officer of the Army.
He was effectively orphaned after his father left the family and his mother died of fever.
He married Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton in December 1780.
- The meaning of the name Hamilton: From Hamela's Settlement