Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was an American politician, leading statesman, financier, intellectual, military officer, and founder of the Federalist Party. One of America's leading constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention. He was one of the two principal authors of the Federalist Papers, which has been the single most important interpretation of the Constitution ever since.

He was the first and most influential Secretary of the Treasury and, due to Washington's system of cabinet Government, and had much influence over the rest of the Government and the formation of policy, including foreign policy. With a vision of using federal power to modernize the nation, he convinced Congress to use an elastic interpretation of the Constitution to pass far-reaching laws. They included the creation of a national debt, federal assumption of the state debts, creation of a national bank, and a system of taxes through a tariff on imports and a tax on whiskey that would pay for it all. In foreign affairs he favored the British, helped reach an agreement with them in 1794 that promoted trade and resolved issues left over from the Revolution. He strongly opposed the French Revolution.

Hamilton created and dominated the Federalist party, the first American political party, which he built up using patronage, networks of elite leaders, and aggressive newspaper editors. His great adversary was Thomas Jefferson, who opposed his urban, financial, industrial pro-British vision and created a rival party. Hamilton retired from the Treasury in 1795 to practice law but returned to the public arena in 1798 as organizer of a new army, one designed to defend against the French by attacking the colonies of their ally, SpainMorison and Commager p. 327; Hamilton also used it to threaten the state of Virginia. He worked to defeat both Adams and Jefferson in the election of 1800; but when the House of Representatives deadlocked, he helped secure the election of Jefferson over Aaron Burr.

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