Alexander Hamilton life and politics
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Biography
Alexander Hamilton was born in 1757 on the Island of Nevis of the British West Indies to an itinerant Scottish merchant and Huguenot planter's daughter.
He held a job at a young age after his mother's death of an apprentice to a clerk of a mercantile establishment. This clerk soon realized that Hamilton held superior knowledge and sent him to New York to study. He attended Barber's Academy at Elizabethtown in Elizabeth, NJ. During his studies, he spent time at William Livingston's house who would, in the future, be a fellow signer of the constitution.
Hamilton was soon interested in law and studied at Albany. He opened a law office which was largely centered on government and politics. He represented his state at the Annapolis Convention in 1786, where he urged the Constitutional Convention.
Hamilton was appointed a delegate of the convention and served only a small part in debates and such, mainly because he was off on legal business for most of the time. He did however sit on the Committee of style and unlike his two fellow delegates Robert Yates and John Lansing Jr...