James Alexander Hamilton
BIRTH
Apr 14, 1788
New York City, New York
DEATH
September 24, 1878
Irvington, New York
FAMILY
FATHER:
Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804)
MOTHER:
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
(1757-1854)
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Hamilton, James Alexander
(1788-1878)
James Alexander Hamilton was a son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. A lawyer and Democratic politician, he briefly served as acting secretary of state under Andrew Jackson and later published recollections defending his father’s life and legacy.
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BROTHER
Philip Schuyler
(1733-1804)
SISTER
Angelica Hamilton
(1784-1857)
BROTHER
William S. Hamilton
(1797-1850)
SISTER
Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
(1734-1803)
BROTHER
Alexander Hamilton Jr.
(1786-1875)
SISTER
Eliza Hamilton Holly
(1799-1859)
BROTHER
Philip Hamilton
(1782-1801)
BROTHER
John Church Hamilton
(1792-1882)
WIFE
Mary Hamilton
(1790-1869)
Eliza Hamilton Schuyler
(1811-1863)
Frances Bowdoin
(1813-1887)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hamilton Grange National Memorial | 414 W 141st St, New York, NY 10031 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Irvington, New York
Sep 24, 1878
James Alexander Hamilton was born on Apr 14, 1788 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Alexander Hamilton with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Alexander Hamilton died on Sep 24, 1878 in Irvington, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.