Alexander Hamilton was born a British subject on January 11, 1757 in Nevis, British West Indies. He died on July 12, 1804. Hamilton’s parent’s were James Hamilton a merchant. His mothers name was Racheal Levine. When his mother was very young she married John Michael Levine. His mother however, left Mr. Levine and later divorces him, under Danish law, the divorce was granted but she wasn’t allowed to remarry. This made Alexander Hamilton’s birth illegal. Alexander joined the country house of Nicholas Cruger and David Beekman, he was a clerk and apprentice at the age of twelve. At fifteen he was given the company. He attended school at Elizabethtown, New Jersey and later graduated from King’s Collage in New York with a Bachelors in Arts. At the start of the American Revolutionary war he organized an artillery and was chosen captain. He became the senior camp aid to George Washington. After the war Hamilton was elected continental congress of New York but resigned to study law and open a bank in New York. He then became the first Secretary of The Treasury on September 11, 1789. He worked on creating a government and structured cabinets. During Hamilton’s time he did three things that have helped the Untied States for what we have today. Hamilton formed a structured government, federal well-being, and political visions. Hamilton helped form the government back when he was part of the Annapolis Convention he brought up flaws from the government, which was from the Articles of Confederation at that time. This is when we begin to see Alexander Hamilton form his opinions, which leads him to saving economic problems. He stats his strong opinions by his assertion at the convention in Philadelphia in 1787 that the United States should have a president for life. However, this placed him on the lower end of the voting rank. He supplied that congress when he was elected the