Alexander Hamilton (November 20, 1755 or 1757–July 13, 1804) was the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, lawyer, founding father, American financier, and political theorist. 

One of America's first constitutional lawyers, he was a leader in calling the Philadelphia Convention in 1787. He was one of the two chief authors of the anonymous Federalist Papers, the most cited contemporary interpretation of intent for the United States Constitution. 

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