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Jackson
Title: Jackson
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 1130 | Pages: 4.8 (approximately 235 words/page)
Jackson
Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indian Island of Nevis on January 11,1757, but
research now indicates that he was born at least two years earlier in 1755. He was the son of James
Hamilton(1752-99), a Scottish trader, and Rachel Faucett Lavien (1729-69). After his mothers death and
his fathers bankruptcy in 1769, at age eleven he entered the countinghouse of David Beckman and
Nicholas Cruger at Saint Croix. There he presented the ability to comprehend …showed first 75 words of 1130 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1130 total…quite reached the same as Washington’s and Jefferson’s. Hamilton never wrote a book on
his life that would help to show the world the way he really was. Maybe the fact that Hamilton was never
President has limited the reach of his image in the American consciousness. If so, then maybe we should
take in consideration the fame of others who never sat in the White House, including Benjamin Franklin
and Thomas Edison.
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