Team "Charlie Don't Surf" is proud to select, with their second pick in the catagory of "Political Leader", First Secretary of the Treasury for the United States of America and Founding Father, Alexander Hamilton.
Born relatively poor and with little formal education, Hamilton would never the less prove to educate himself and ascend to the highest ranks of American Society. One of George Washington's closest advisors, Hamilton saw military action in the decisive Battle of Yorktown.
Following the war, Hamilton would become the driving force (and largest contributing author, roughly 60 percent) behind the Federalist Papers.
As founding treasury secretary, he is responsible for much of the basic economic policy in place by the united states, and by extension the world.
He founded the Bank of New York, the oldest continuously running financial institution in the US, as well as founded The New York Post and Columbia College, restoring Kings College after it had been disbanded during the war.
Alexander Hamilton, one of the most prominent, yet little known members of American Indendence.
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