By the time Alexander Hamilton died on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey, the power of the Federalist Party was in terminal decline. Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton ...

George Washington was sworn in as the first U. S. President at an inauguration ceremony on April 30, 1789, held on the steps of Federal Hall, 26 Wall Street, a block east of what is now the  New ...

In an attempt to make a New York paper with a strong Federalist Party stance — as opposed to President Thomas Jefferson’s ruling Democratic-Republican Party — Hamilton sought to raise $ ...

The quote originally came from a letter Hamilton sent to his friend and fellow Federalist party member Theodore Sedgwick, per Independent Journal Review. This was during the time of the ...

And although he was prohibited by the Constitution from being elected president, Hamilton emerged as leader of the Federalist political party. Born into a prominent New Jersey family in 1756 ...

Hamilton — a top aide to George Washington, a military hero, the nation’s first Treasury secretary, and one of the most influential members of the Federalist Party — despised Adams for ...

Hamilton, the undisputed leader and political strategist of the Federalist Party, now a private citizen in New York pursuing a lucrative career as a lawyer, wrote a letter that has done more to ...

Hamilton, an acknowledged leader of the Federalist Party, had a radically different view of the impending vote. Burr, a man he knew well from New York political and legal circles, he said ...

Burr was a formative member of the Democratic-Republican Party, while Hamilton led the opposing Federalist camp. Burr repeatedly had found himself the brunt of Hamilton’s political maneuvering ...

His New York wing of the Jeffersonian party, the “Burrites,” were men of mixed class backgrounds, whereas the Schuyler-Hamilton Federalist faction was a top-down organization favoring elite ...

And Burr’s New York wing of the Jeffersonian party were men of mixed class backgrounds, whereas the Schuyler-Hamilton Federalist faction was a top-down organization favoring elite interests.

By the time Alexander Hamilton died on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey, the power of the Federalist Party was in terminal decline. Federalism was born in 1787, when Alexander Hamilton ...