Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

Alexander Hamilton was born around 1755 in the Caribbean island of Nevis, orphaned young, and arrived in New York as a teenager, rising through sheer brilliance to become George Washington's aide-de-camp during the Revolution, a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, and the first Secretary of the Treasury. James Madison, born in 1751 in Virginia to a prominent planting family, was the principal architect of the Constitution itself, later serving as Secretary of State and fourth President of the United States. John Jay, born in 1745 into a wealthy New York family, was a diplomat, the first Chief Justice of the United States, and a key negotiator of the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Federalist Papers.