Does anyone know where Alexander Hamilton was born?

Question

The Alexander Hamilton whose pic is on the USA 10 dollar Bill I mean

Answer 1

Alexander Hamilton was born on the West Indies island of Nevis.

Answer 2

Definitely is the small Caribbean island of Nevis. Visited Nevis and its sister nation of St. Kitts @12 years ago after just randomly picking somewhere as a Caribbean vacation spot; together St. Kitts and Nevis unite together as one nation/government (St. Kitts is the larger, more populated island that sort of looks like a chicken drumstick and Nevis is smaller, more isolated). I do have a couple pictures of Hamilton's boyhood home (currently serves as a museum) if you want to message me with an e-mail address to send them to; I came across a huge Alexander Hamilton buff a couple months ago that I sent the pictures to.

Answer 3

Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies island of Nevis to James Hamilton, the fourth son of a Scottish laird, and Rachel Fawcett Lavien, of part French Huguenot descent.

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 foremost constitutional lawyers, he was an influential delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention in 1787 and was the leading author of the Federalist Papers (1788), which has been the single most important interpretation of the Constitution.

He was the first Secretary of the Treasury 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. He admired the British system and strongly denounced the French Revolution.

Hamilton created 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 monarchial, urban, financial, industrial pro-British vision and created the rival Republican 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; if full scale war broke out with France, this army was intended to conquer the colonies of Spain, France's ally. Hamilton also used it to threaten political foes in 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.

Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies island of Nevis to James Hamilton, the fourth son of a Scottish laird, and Rachel Fawcett Lavien, of part French Huguenot descent. Hamilton's mother had been married to Johann Michael Lavien on the island of St. Croix. When she moved to Nevis she left a son from this marriage. (The spelling of Lavien varies; this is Hamilton's version, which may be a Sephardic spelling of Levine.) The couple may have lived apart from one another under an order of legal separation; since Rachel was the guilty party, re-marriage was impossible.