Show Alexander Hamilton One of the great minds behind the American Revolution was Alexander born on in the West HAMILTON at 17 attracted widespread attention by a speech he made at City Hall in New York supporting the proposal to call a congress of the Shortly afterward it became known that not two older men-had written two pamphlets defending the action of the and his reputation was He volunteered for military duty and served in the at its end having become Washington's aide and personal He was a member of the Continental Congress in 1782 and He was named by Washington as first Secretary of the IN in the election contest between John Adams and Aaron Hamilton used his influence to give the victory to Adams when a stalemate developed in the House of Four years later still challenged Hamilton to a whose mother had been a French the somewhat misguided Latin At the duel he fired intentionally into the THE revenge-minded Burr aimed straight and Hamilton died of the wound the next one of the few prominent Americans to have lost his life jn a |