![]() ![]() ![]() During their tumultuous relationship, by Danish law, he even had her imprisoned for several months for adultery. Lavien was abusive to Rachel and had spent nearly all the money she had inherited when her father died in 1745. Hamilton's parents were Rachel Fawcett Lavien, who was of British and French Huguenot descent, and James Hamilton, a Scottish trader.Īt the time of Hamilton's birth, Rachel was married to John Lavien, a much older merchant whom she had been pressured to wed by her parents when she was a teenager. ![]() Hamilton was born on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies, on Januor 1757 (the exact date is unknown). Hamilton - an avowed Federalist - then served as the nation's first secretary of the treasury, from 1789 to 1795. In 1788, as one of America's Founding Fathers, he convinced New Yorkers to agree to ratify the U.S Constitution. Alexander Hamilton was born in the British West Indies, and later became General George Washington's assistant. ![]()
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