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HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (5)
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (5)
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(1755 - 1804)
a soldier and political
leader
of the
late
eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a founding father (one of the signers of the
Declaration
of Independence) of the United
States
. Hamilton advised
George
Washington
(first
president
of the US) in the
Revolutionary War
and was a
leader
in the drafting of the
Constitution
. He later served under
Washington
as the first
secretary
of the
treasury
in the new
government
.
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