The Tuesday Club A Shorter Edition of The History of the See this Club A Epub µ thread for information Alexander Hamilton January or – July was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury a Founding Father economist and political philosopher He led calls for the Philadelphia Convention was one of America's first Constitutional lawyers and cowrote the Federalist Papers a primary source for Constitutional interpretationBorn on the West Indian island of Nevis Hamilton was educated in North America During the American Revolutionary War he joined the American militia and was chosen artillery captain Hamilton became senior aide de camp The Tuesday eBook ´ and confidant to General George Washington and Tuesday Club A Shorter Edition Kindle - led three battalions at the Siege of Yorktown He was elected to the Continental Congress but resigned to practice law and to found the Bank of New York He served in the New York Legislature later returned to Congress and was the only New York signer at the Philadelphia Convention As Washington's Treasury Secretary he influenced formative government policy widely An admirer of British political systems Hamilton emphasized strong central government and Implied Powers under which the new US Congress funded the national debt assumed Tuesday Club A eBook ☆ state debts created a national bank and established an import tariff and whiskey taxBy a Hamilton coalition and a Jefferson Madison coalition had arisen the formative Federalist and Democratic Republican Parties which differed strongly over Hamilton's domestic fiscal goals and his foreign policy of extensive trade and friendly relations with Britain Exposed in an affair with Maria Reynolds Hamilton resigned from the Treasury in to return to Constitutional law and advocacy of strong federalism In the uasi War with France led Hamilton to argue for organize and become de Tuesday Club A Shorter Edition Kindle - facto commander of a national armyHamilton's opposition to fellow Federalist John Adams contributed to the success of Democratic Republicans Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr in the uniuely deadlocked election of With his party's defeat Hamilton's nationalist and industrializing ideas lost their former national prominence In Hamilton founded the New York Post as the Federalist broadsheet New York Evening Post His intense rivalry with Vice President Burr eventually resulted in a duel in which Hamilton was mortally wounded dying the following day After the War of Hamilton's former opponents including Madison and Albert Gallatin revived some of his federalizing programs such as a second national bank national infrastructure tariffs and a standing army and navy Hamilton's federalist and business oriented economic visions for the country continue to influence party platforms to this day.