Very incomplete list!
in chronological order
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John Baylis (c.1727-1765) —
of Dumfries, Prince
William County, Va.
Born in Manassas,
Va., about 1727.
Lawyer;
planter;
member of Virginia
House of Burgesses, 1761-65.
Anglican.
Killed
in a duel with Cuthbert
Bullitt, in Prince
William County, Va., September
24, 1765 (age about 38
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of William Baylis; married 1754 to Jane
Blackburn. |
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Button Gwinnett (1735-1777) —
of Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga.
Born in Down Hatherly, Gloucestershire, England,
March
3, 1735.
Planter;
Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1776; signer,
Declaration of Independence, 1776; delegate
to Georgia state constitutional convention, 1777; Governor of
Georgia, 1777.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with Lachlan
McIntosh, on May 16, 1777, and died three days later, near
Savannah, Chatham
County, Ga., May 19,
1777 (age 42 years, 77
days).
Interment at Colonial
Park Cemetery, Savannah, Ga.; memorial monument at Constitution Gardens, Washington, D.C.
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George Wells (1744-1780) —
of Georgia.
Born in Queen
Anne's County, Md., March 3,
1744.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Governor of
Georgia, 1780; died in office 1780.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with James
Jackson, and died soon after, in Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga., February
15, 1780 (age 35 years, 349
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Richard Dobbs Spaight (1758-1802) —
of Craven
County, N.C.
Born in New Bern, Craven
County, N.C., March
25, 1758.
Democrat. Member of North Carolina state legislature, 1781; Delegate
to Continental Congress from North Carolina, 1783-85; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; Governor of
North Carolina, 1792-95; U.S.
Representative from North Carolina, 1798-1801 (10th District
1798-99, at-large 1799-1801); member of North
Carolina state senate, 1801.
Episcopalian.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in in a duel with John
Stanly, his opponent and successor in Congress, and died in New
Bern, Craven
County, N.C., September
6, 1802 (age 44 years, 165
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Craven County, N.C.
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Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) —
also known as "Alexander the
Coppersmith" —
of New York, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Charles Town, Nevis,
January
11, 1757.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New York, 1782-83; member of New York
state assembly from New York County, 1786-87; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; delegate
to New York convention to ratify U.S. constitution from New York
County, 1788; U.S.
Secretary of the Treasury, 1789-95.
Episcopalian.
Scottish
and French
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Society
of the Cincinnati.
Elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1915.
Shot
and mortally
wounded in a duel with Aaron
Burr, on July 11, 1804, and died the next day in New York, New York
County, N.Y., July 12,
1804 (age 47 years, 183
days).
Interment at Trinity
Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; statue at Treasury
Building Grounds, Washington, D.C.; statue at Commonwealth Avenue Mall, Boston, Mass.
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Relatives: Son
of James Hamilton and Rachel (Faucette) Hamilton; married, December
14, 1780, to Elizabeth Schuyler (daughter of Philip
John Schuyler; sister of Philip
Jeremiah Schuyler); father of Alexander
Hamilton Jr., James
Alexander Hamilton and William
Stephen Hamilton; great-grandfather of Robert
Ray Hamilton; second great-grandfather of Laurens
M. Hamilton; ancestor *** of Robert
Hamilton Woodruff. |
| | | Political families: Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York; VanRensselaer
family of Albany, New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Nathaniel
Pendleton — Robert
Troup — John
Tayler — William
P. Van Ness |
| | | Hamilton counties in Fla., Ill., Ind., Kan., Neb., N.Y., Ohio and Tenn. are
named for him. |
| | | The city
of Hamilton,
Ohio, is named for
him. — Hamilton Hall (dormitory, built 1926), at
Harvard University
Business School, Boston,
Massachusetts, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Alexander
H. Buell
— Alexander
H. Holley
— Hamilton
Fish
— Alexander
H. Stephens
— Alexander
H. Bullock
— Alexander
H. Bailey
— Alexander
H. Rice
— Alexander
Hamilton Jones
— Alexander
H. Waterman
— Alexander
H. Coffroth
— Alexander
H. Dudley
— Alexander
H. Revell
— Alexander
Hamilton Hargis
— Alexander
Hamilton Phillips
— Alex
Woodle
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appears on the U.S. $10 bill; from the 1860s to the 1920s, his
portrait also appeared on U.S. notes and certificates of various
denominations from $2 to $1,000. |
| | | Personal motto: "Do it better
yet." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Historical
Society of the New York Courts |
| | | Books about Alexander Hamilton: Richard
Brookhiser, Alexander
Hamilton, American — Forrest McDonald, Alexander
Hamilton: A Biography — Gertrude Atherton, Conqueror
: Dramatized Biography of Alexander Hamilton — Ron
Chernow, Alexander
Hamilton — Thomas Fleming, Duel:
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of
America — Arnold A. Rogow, A
Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr —
Willard Sterne Randall, Alexander
Hamilton: A Life — John Harper, American
Machiavelli : Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of U.S. Foreign
Policy — Stephen F. Knott, Alexander
Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth — Charles Cerami,
Young
Patriots: The Remarkable Story of Two Men. Their Impossible Plan and
The Revolution That Created The Constitution — Donald
Barr Chidsey, Mr.
Hamilton and Mr. Jefferson |
| | | Critical books about Alexander
Hamilton: Thomas DiLorenzo, Hamilton's
Curse : How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution
-- and What It means for Americans Today |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1957) |
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John Ward Gurley (c.1787-1808) —
of Louisiana.
Born in Lebanon, New London
County, Conn., about 1787.
Orleans
territory attorney general, 1803.
Killed
in a duel with Philip L. Jones, in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March 3,
1808 (age about 21
years).
Burial location unknown.
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Armistead Thomson Mason (1787-1819) —
also known as Armistead T. Mason —
of Virginia.
Born in Louisa
County, Va., August
4, 1787.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; U.S.
Senator from Virginia, 1816-17.
Slaveowner.
As a result of a bitter election campaign, was killed in
a duel with Col. John Mason McCarty, at Bladensburg, Prince
George's County, Md., February
6, 1819 (age 31 years, 186
days).
Interment at Episcopal
Churchyard, Leesburg, Va.
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Joshua Barton (1792-1823) —
of Missouri.
Born in Jefferson
County, Tenn., July 28,
1792.
Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1820-21; resigned 1821; U.S.
Attorney for Missouri, 1822-23.
Killed
in a duel with Thomas C. Rector, on Bloody Island, St.
Louis, Mo., June 30,
1823 (age 30 years, 337
days).
Interment somewhere
in St. Charles, Mo.
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Joseph Selden (1787-1824) —
of Arkansas.
Born in Henrico
County, Va., May 7,
1787.
Major in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; justice of
Arkansas territorial supreme court, 1820-24; died in office 1824.
Killed
in a duel with Andrew
Scott, on an island in the Mississippi River, near Helena (now
part of Helena-West Helena), Phillips
County, Ark., May 26,
1824 (age 37 years, 19
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Robert Brank Vance (1793-1827) —
of Nashville, Nash
County, N.C.
Born near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., 1793.
Democrat. U.S.
Representative from North Carolina 12th District, 1823-25.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with Samuel
P. Carson, who had defeated him for Congress; died the next day
at a hotel in
Henderson
County, N.C., 1827
(age about
34 years).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Buncombe County, N.C.
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Henry Wharton Conway (1793-1827) —
also known as Henry W. Conway —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born near Greeneville, Greene
County, Tenn., March
18, 1793.
Served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; postmaster at Little
Rock, Ark., 1821-23; Delegate
to U.S. Congress from Arkansas Territory, 1823-27; died in office
1827.
Mortally
wounded in a duel with Robert
Crittenden on October 29, 1827, and died at Arkansas Post, Arkansas
County, Ark., November
9, 1827 (age 34 years, 236
days).
Interment at Scull
Cemetery, Arkansas Post, Ark.
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Spencer Darwin Pettis (1802-1831) —
also known as Spencer D. Pettis —
of Fayette, Howard
County, Mo.
Born in Culpeper
County, Va., 1802.
Democrat. Secretary
of state of Missouri, 1826-28; U.S.
Representative from Missouri at-large, 1829-31; died in office
1831.
The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel and ultimately a
duel with Maj. Thomas Biddle, in which both fell mortally
wounded; died the next day, in St.
Louis, Mo., August
28, 1831 (age about 29
years).
Interment at Old
City Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Jonathan Cilley (1802-1838) —
of Thomaston, Knox
County, Maine.
Born in Nottingham, Rockingham
County, N.H., July 2,
1802.
Lawyer;
member of Maine
state house of representatives, 1831-36; Speaker of
the Maine State House of Representatives, 1835-36; U.S.
Representative from Maine 3rd District, 1837-38; died in office
1838.
Killed
in a duel by Representative William
J. Graves of Kentucky, on the Marlboro Pike, in Prince
George's County, Md., February
24, 1838 (age 35 years, 237
days).
Interment at Elm
Grove Cemetery, Thomaston, Maine; cenotaph at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Augustus A. Alston (1805-1839) —
of Georgia.
Born in Hancock
County, Ga., 1805.
Member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1828-29.
Killed
in a duel with Gen. Leigh Read, in Tallahassee, Leon
County, Fla., 1839
(age about
34 years).
Burial location unknown.
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George Augustus Waggaman (c.1782-1843) —
also known as George A. Waggaman —
of New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La.
Born in Caroline
County, Md., about 1782.
Lawyer;
sugar
cane planter;
served in the U.S. Army during the War of 1812; circuit judge in
Louisiana, 1818; secretary
of state of Louisiana, 1830-32; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1831-35.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel, and died in New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., March
31, 1843 (age about 61
years).
Original interment at Girod
Street Cemetery (which no longer exists), New Orleans, La.;
reinterment in 1957 at Hope
Mausoleum, New Orleans, La.
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Edward Gilbert (c.1819-1852) —
of San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Cherry Valley, Otsego
County, N.Y., about 1819.
Democrat. Printer;
newspaper
editor; delegate
to California state constitutional convention from San Francisco
District, 1849; U.S.
Representative from California at-large, 1850-51.
Killed
in a duel with Col. James W. Denver, near Sacramento, Sacramento
County, Calif., August
2, 1852 (age about 33
years).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment to unknown location.
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Solomon Weathersbee Downs (1801-1854) —
also known as Solomon W. Downs —
of Louisiana.
Born in Montgomery
County, Tenn., 1801.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 1845-46; U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1847-53; U.S. Collector of
Customs, 1853.
Slaveowner.
Mortally
wounded in a duel, and subsequently died, at Crab Orchard
Springs, Lincoln
County, Ky., August
14, 1854 (age about 53
years).
Original interment at a
private or family graveyard, Ouachita Parish, La.; reinterment at
Riverview
Cemetery, Monroe, La.
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David Colbreth Broderick (1820-1859) —
also known as David C. Broderick —
of New York; San
Francisco, Calif.
Born in Washington,
D.C., February
4, 1820.
Democrat. Candidate for U.S.
Representative from New York, 1846; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; member of California
state senate, 1850-52; Lieutenant
Governor of California, 1851-52; U.S.
Senator from California, 1857-59; died in office 1859.
Irish
ancestry.
Mortally
wounded in a duel on September 13, 1859 with David
S. Terry, chief justice of the California Supreme Court, and died
in San
Francisco, Calif., September
16, 1859 (age 39 years, 224
days).
Original interment at Laurel
Hill Cemetery (which no longer exists), San Francisco, Calif.;
reinterment in 1942 at Cypress
Lawn Memorial Park, Colma, Calif.
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William Augustus Lake (1808-1861) —
Born near Cambridge, Dorchester
County, Md., January
6, 1808.
Member of Maryland
state house of delegates, 1831; member of Mississippi
state senate, 1848; U.S.
Representative from Mississippi 4th District, 1855-57; member of
Mississippi
state house of representatives, 1859.
Slaveowner.
Killed
in a duel by Henry
Cousins Chambers, his opponent for Confederate Congress, at
Hopefield, Crittenden
County, Ark., October
15, 1861 (age 53 years, 282
days).
Interment at Cedar
Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Miss.
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William T. Casto (1824-1862) —
Born January
24, 1824.
Lawyer;
mayor
of Maysville, Ky., 1850; arrested
in 1861 and imprisoned
for allegedly aiding
the Confederacy; released in 1862.
Blamed Col. Leonidas Metcalfe (son of Gov. Thomas
Metcalfe) for his imprisonment; challenged him to a duel;
the weapons were Colt rifles at 60 yards; Casto was shot and
killed
on the first fire, in Bracken
County, Ky., May 8,
1862 (age 38 years, 104
days).
Interment at Maysville
Cemetery, Maysville, Ky.
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Relatives: Son
of Abijah Casto. |
| | | Epitaph: "A Patriot, his Country's firm
unwavering friend, he was willing to die for his Principles and as a
man of Honor nobly fell a Veteran of the sacred and invincible right
of personal liberty." |
| | | See also Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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