He died in a tragic duel with his political rival, Aaron Burr. Alexander Hamilton was born on January 11, 1757, in Nevis, British West Indies. His father, James Hamilton, was a Scottish trader.

Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton left also but not before contracting ... "and in every room you enter you see no person but a solitary black man or woman near the sick." ...

Alexander was a young man on the cusp of living out his dream as a four-star football prospect out of Hamilton Southeastern. But three days after his first interview as a college athlete ...