Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr

Alexander Hamilton vs. Aaron Burr. The two men despised each other. The last two times in these pages, I outlined the grinding, seething, and acrimonious disgust that the two political parties—Federalist and Democratic-Republic—harbored for each other, throughout the 1790s and beyond, during the Washington and Adams administrations. The 1800 election gave the White House and the Presidency to Thomas Jefferson, the chief Democratic-Republican, an…

Alexander Hamilton ~ Founding Father, Anonymous Author, Doomed Duelist

Note ~ The Florida Artists, Architects, and Authors Series will continue next month.A FOUNDING FATHER Though Alexander Hamilton is considered a Founding Father, he is one of four in that historic group who didn’t sign America’s Declaration of Independence from the British on July 4, 1776.The other three are George Washington, James Madison, and John Jay.  General Washington was too busy actually fighting for that independence. However, he read t…