Posted on 01/10/2007 10:45:15 AM PST by presidio9
Why would that have been significant?
RU a JP Morgan historian, as well?
Then he coulda been a contender. Wait - no - he could have been president.
Seriesly?
Good excuse for a nice long walk :-)
Mr. Hamilton seldom gets the credit he rightly deserves for his service to the nation - in war and in peace.
Don't forget what he did to the war vets and the way he undercut John Jay.
It's interesting when you think of how young our country is. What will people do, IF ANYTHING, when Hamilton turns 1,000? We he even be in the history books or computers by then?
I'd pi$$ on Burr's grave if given the chance.
Here's a fun fact: did you know that JP Morgan started as an English firm.
You sound ambitious. I think I'll just look at a 10-spot.
And aren't the Rockefellers descended from the Rothschilds, who are French?
I remember reading about the duel in an issue of the Weekly Standard (can't remember which one, but it was published within the last 5 years).
I believe Hamilton shot first -- and did throw his shot, shooting well wide of Burr. As you mentioned, Hamilton had been in several of these before and they were largely ceremonial. But Burr had murder on his mind. And as you said, Burr did not hit his intended target, as it took Hamilton 3 whole days to die.
I have a copy of the Federalist Papers, and Hamilton is by far my favorite of the Founding Fathers. Burr may have won the duel, but we are living in Hamilton's America.
I have also been to Hamilton's grave, at the little church in NYC's financial district, about a block or two from the WTC site and Wall Street.
I am a block away right now. It is interesting and ironic to note that Alexander Hamilton of being the only founding father to be covered with fallout from the World Trade Center.
I'm just saying that Hamilton was no Conservative, as we define the word.
Fine man, great American, brilliant mind, but far too much in favor of a centralized Federal government for my mind.
Later in life, Burr went off to start his own country in the Southwest with himself as ruler in full 'Heart of Darkenss' style.
The Rothschilds were originally a German Jewish family from Frankfurt. Mayer Rothschild established a bank in Frankfurt and established branches for each of his sons in important financial centers like London, Vienna and Paris.
The French Rothschilds are only one part of this pretty incredible family.
Mayer rose to prominence in the 1750s, and he was a devoutly observant Jew who did not marry outside his people, nor did his sons - in fact for three generations they barely married outside their own extended family.
The original John D. Rockefeller was born in 1839 to a devout family of American Baptists who had German, French Huguenot and English ancestry.
The chances of common ancestry here are slim.
It is interesting to me that Jonathan Edwards was grandfather to Aaron Burr. Wonder what he would have thought of all this?
No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; ...
Was Alexander Hamilton not a citizen of the United States when the Constitution was adopted? I believe so. Are you under the impression that he was not eligible to be President because he was not born in the U.S.?
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