The Accomplishments Of Alexander Hamilton

As the book of Alexander Hamilton is read, the reader can gain the information needed to decipher the descriptive early years of his life. His early years provide a structure on how the interpretation of Hamilton as a young boy throughout his adulthood can benefit the reader in understanding how he grew up as a child to his relationships with others from how we viewed his past. The book can demonstrate to all the accomplishments that Alexander Hamilton will be forever remembered for throughout history. Alexander Hamilton has been a huge structure in the life of many with his vast accomplishments from the historical notes that have been archived for all to read and enjoy. As presented in the introduction, the book by Richard Brookhiser, “Alexander

He was the son of James Hamilton Senior and Rachel Faucett. His mother was also known as Rachel Lavien, because before she met James Hamilton, she was married to John Lavien, with whom she birthed a son. John Lavien then had Rachel arrested and sentenced to a year in prison for not living with him. Once Rachel was released from prison she returned to the West Indies. It was here, in the West Indies that she met Alexander Hamilton’s father. Rachel met James and they eventually had two sons together. James Junior and Alexander. For the nearly the entire youth of his life, Alexander believed his mother and father to have been married. The truth was discovered when John Lavien divorced Rachel for reasons that were deemed her fault, and by Danish law, if found at fault for divorce then that person is unable to remarry. When James Hamilton learned this information, he moved his family to St. Criox and a year later left his family, and never

Being a part of the writing of the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton would also become the first Treasury Secretary of North America where he discovered the importance of a National Bank and the future debt of the country. Hamilton established America’s credit by resolving the problem of its outstanding debt. Hamilton was making great decisions and recognized accomplishments for the treasury until he began his involvement with a woman, Maria Reynolds, whom he deemed a woman in distress. It was believed that his view of a woman in distress was in need of help, was gathered from his mother and her need to be rescued by his father. Alexander would later have to reveal his affair to his wife and his fellow politicians to defend his position as treasury secretary and that there were not any money scandals involving the treasury during this time. Only his acts of adultery and payment for the blackmail of the relationship. Which he proved was not paid from the treasury, but borrowed from a