Alexander Hamilton: Difference between revisions

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]

* [[The Determinator]]: One of the few famous Founders not to come from a land-wealthy family. Hamilton went from a poor orphan boy in the West Indies to Revolutionary War hero and father of American finance out of his sheer force of will.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: During the 1800 election in the United States, [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[Thomas Jefferson]] both decided that they hated Aaron Burr more than they hated each other, thus leading to Alexander Hamilton persuading the Electoral College to vote for Jefferson instead of Burr.

** Hamilton had a lot of political enemies, but few he hated more than George Clinton, Governor of New York. Clinton did everything he could to try to stop the Constitution from being ratified by New York and was among the first to paint Hamilton as [[Aristocrats Are Evil|an evil aristocrat out to hurt farmer citizens]]. For this, Hamilton spent years working to destroy Clinton's career, though it didn't work (Clinton became VP to Thomas Jefferson).

* [[Fiery Redhead]]

* [[Guile Hero]]

* [[Heartbroken Badass]]

* [[Ivy League]]: Attended Columbia when it was still called King's College.

* [[The Lancer]]: Hamilton served as George Washington's [[Number Two]] during the Revolutionary War and Washington's time as president. While Washington was stoic, deliberative, and against bare knuckle politics, Hamilton was brash, quick witted, and famously one of the most vicious political fighters of his generation. This proved useful to Washington, who relied on Hamilton's intricate thinking and writing skills to serve as his Army chief of staff and most trusted secretary, much to the annoyance of others on Washington's staff.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]: His father left the family when he was ten, and his mother died two years later.

* [[Showdown At High Noon]]: Perhaps the most famous example of such a duel is the 1804 duel in which American Vice President Aaron Burr killed Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. The difference here is that dueling pistols were not at all accurate nor meant to be accurate — the point of the duel was to prove you cared enough about the grievance to risk your life. That Aaron Burr actually hit and killed Hamilton was a freak occurrence.

* He was Cahill from the Ekatrina branch in [[The 39 Clues]]. The duel with Burr (a Lucien here) was consider the {{spoiler|Mardigals'}} worst nightmare.

* Hamilton is a key character in Lucia St. Clair Robsons's novel ''Shadow Patriots''.

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