The Short Life And Accomplishments Of Alexander Hamilton

Of the founding fathers of our nation, history often remembers the ones who shaped our nation the most. Of course, history is shaped by those that survive, and so the hundreds of accomplishments that Alexander Hamilton was able to achieve in his short life time mostly go unremembered. The United State’s first Secretary of Treasury shaped the early economy of the nation in ways that still affect us today, yet, before the hit broadway musical about him, most people remembered him as the guy on the ten-dollar bill and the guy that Aaron Burr shot. Alexander Hamilton did so much more than that. He rose from the bottom, an illegitimate child and orphan by age 14, almost to the top, the right hand man of George Washington for several years. Alexander

He saw battlefield glory as his only way to rise to the top, and he would do anything to get it. Finally, just before the dawn of the last battle at Yorktown, George Washington granted him his wish. Hamilton was made commander of a battalion, and ended up picking up two more battalions for the strike on Yorktown. After the victory, he resigned from the army and moved to New York with his wife, where we was elected to the Continental Congress. Dissatisfied with the limits on Congress’s power and upset that he could do nothing to change it, he resigned and started a law practice. After massive success in his law practice in a short amount of time, he started the Bank or New York. By 1787, Alexander was on his way to the constitutional convention with two other delegates for New York. Because the two delegates that were sent with him had very opposite views from his own, he had very little power over anything at the constitutional convention, forced to watch as others decided the fate of the country. At some point, New York’s other delegates grew discontent with the meeting and left. This meant that Hamilton was the only delegate from New York to sign the