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Founding Father Alexander Hamilton was born circa January 11, 1755 or 1757 (the exact date is unknown), on the island of Nevis in the British West Indies. Hamilton was the product of an adulterous affair. His mother, a Frenchwoman named Rachel Fawcett Lavine, was married to someone else when Hamilton was born.

When Rachel’s husband threw her out of the house, she moved in with Alexander Hamilton’s father, a Scottish trader named James. But the living arrangement did not last long. James abandoned the family when Alexander was still a baby, leaving Alexander and his mother impoverished. John Adams would one day come to illustrate Hamilton’s rise from humble beginnings by describing the young Hamilton as “the bastard brat of a Scottish peddler.”

Determined to improve his lot in life, Alexander Hamilton took his first job at the tender age of 11. Working as a clerk in an accounting firm in St. Croix, the bright and ambitious young lad quickly impressed his employer. Hamilton’s boss, businessman Nicolas Cruger, pooled his resources with a minister named Hugh Knox to send Hamilton to America for an education

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