James Alexander Hamilton
(1788-1878)
BIRTH
April 14, 1788
PLACE
New York City, New York
DEATH
September 24, 1878
PLACE
Irvington, New York
FAMILY
FATHER
Alexander Hamilton
(1757-1804)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton
(1757-1854)
BROTHER
Philip Schuyler
(1733-1804)
SISTER
Catherine Van Rensselaer Schuyler
(1734-1803)
BROTHER
Philip Hamilton
(1782-1801)
SISTER
Angelica Hamilton
(1784-1857)
BROTHER
Alexander Hamilton Jr.
(1786-1875)
BROTHER
John Church Hamilton
(1792-1882)
BROTHER
William Stephen Hamilton
(1797-1850)
SISTER
Eliza Hamilton Holly
(1799-1859)
WIFE
Mary Morris Hamilton
(1790-1869)
CHILDREN
Eliza Hamilton Schuyler
(1811-1863)
CHILDREN
Frances Hamilton Bowdoin
(1813-1887)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
James Alexander Hamilton (1788–1878) was Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton’s son, a New York lawyer and a confidant of Andrew Jackson. He briefly acted as secretary of state in 1829 before becoming United States attorney for southern New York. He lived at Nevis, named for his father’s birthplace, and published memoirs defending his father. In 1851 he joined the winning America’s Cup crew. During the Civil War he advocated emancipation and consulted Abraham Lincoln.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
James Alexander Hamilton was Alexander and Elizabeth Hamilton’s son, a New York lawyer and a confidant of Andrew Jackson. In 1851 he joined the winning America’s Cup crew. During the Civil War he advocated emancipation and consulted Abraham Lincoln. James Alexander Hamilton died on Sep 24, 1878 in Irvington, New York. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
MONUMENT
Hamilton Grange National Memorial
414 W 141st St, New York, NY 10031
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
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