Alexander Hamilton Case

Alexander Hamilton had a genius mind, but his honor and outspoken ideas that qualify him as a genius, also made him many enemies and eventually would lead to him being killed. Alexander Hamilton had a real desire for power. He started out as a bastard son in the Caribbean Islands. By the time he was 17 his father had abandoned him and his mother had died, so he started working as a clerk for a shipping company. When a massive hurricane hit the island he wrote an article that was so influential that his town raised the money to send him to school overseas. He arrives in America shortly after the Boston Tea Party and is swept up into the American Revolution. He enlists in the army and within four short years he is aide to General Washington in the Continental army. After leaving the army Alexander Hamilton goes on to be a member of the New York assembly, a congressman, a founder of the Federalist Party, and America's first secretary of the treasury. Alexander Hamilton was a very prominent man and he was driven mostly in part by the way he grew up. When he was in the Caribbean he was the lowest that he could be, he worked hard to get to the top and defended his honor to his death bed.

Alexander Hamilton had a lot of out-spoken ideas. For example, Alexander Hamilton was an elitist; he was very worried about giving too much power to the common man. He wanted Presidents and Senators to be elected for life terms. He was Thomas Jefferson's chief rival. Jefferson imagined a government that was strong and centralized on foreign policy, but was as hands-off and restrained as it could be on domestic matters, and was absolutely horrified at the thought of Americans depending on their government. Whereas, Hamilton believed the government should play a strong role in individuals' lives; that a national identity should be primary. By America having a huge amount of debt, he hoped to involve the Treasury in the day-to-day operations of the economy, and by doing