Alexander Hamilton: America’s First Treasury Secretary

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MEET ALEXANDER HAMILTON The United States government was founded more than 240 years ago by a group of men who worked together but didn’t always agree about what a government should do This group is called the Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton was one of the youngest youngest and brightest of the Founding Fathers Unlike most of the other founders Hamilton was not born in one of the thir teen colonies that broke away from Great Britain to form the United States in 1776 Alexander Hamilton was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States He helped design the nation’s government 4 CHAPTER ONE