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Alexander Hamilton Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis on January 11,1757, but research now indicates that he was born at least two years earlier in 1755. He was the son of James Hamilton(1752-99), a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien (1729-69). After his mothers death and his fathers bankruptcy in 1769, at age eleven he entered the countinghouse of David Beckman and Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. There he presented the ability …

…quite reached the same as Washington’s and Jefferson’s. Hamilton never wrote a book on his life that would help to show the world the way he really was. Maybe the fact that Hamilton was never President has limited the reach of his image in the American consciousness. If so, then maybe we should take in consideration the fame of others who never sat in the White House, including Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison.