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Alexander Hamilton
(1755 - 1804)
A Scottish immigrant born to a single mother, Alexander Hamilton served in the first cabinet of the United States as George Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury.
(1755 - 1804)
A Scottish immigrant born to a single mother, Alexander Hamilton served in the first cabinet of the United States as George Washington’s Secretary of the Treasury.
Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.
—Alexander Hamilton, 1787