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Philip Hamilton (January 22, 1782 – November 24, 1801) was the eldest child of Alexander Hamilton (the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury) and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton. He died at age 19, fatally shot in a duel with George Eacker .
Hamilton's death permanently weakened the Federalist Party, which was founded by Hamilton in 1789 and one of the nation's major two parties at the time. It also ended Burr's political career, as he was vilified for shooting Hamilton. Alexander Hamilton died close to the spot where his son Philip Hamilton died in a separate duel.
Eacker shot and struck Philip above his right hip. The bullet went through his body and lodged in his left arm. In what may have been an involuntary spasm, Hamilton fired his pistol in the air. [12] In a letter to Rufus King, Robert Troup wrote of Alexander Hamilton, "Never did I see a man so completely overwhelmed with grief as Hamilton had been."
Days after his death, Jasmine Cephas Jones paid tribute to her father with a post on her Instagram story that captured just how close they were. ... who played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton. In ...
Philip Hamilton, son of former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, by George I. Eacker, in Weehawken, New Jersey – 1801 [22]; Richard Dobbs Spaight, delegate to the Continental Congress and Governor of North Carolina, by John Stanly – 1802 [23]
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The day of his birth in 1802 was June 2 by his son's account, [1]: 210 or June 1 according to his New York Herald obituary [2] and his gravestone. [3] The youngest child of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, he was born less than a year after the death of his oldest brother, Philip Hamilton, after whom he was named. He was ...