On this day, 221 years ago, on July 12, 1804 (June 6, 1804), Alexander Hamilton, the founding father of the United States, died. Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1757 - July 12, 1804) One of the founding fathers of the United States and one of the drafters of the Constitution, he was a financial expert and the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. He was a well-known political figure who lost his life in a "duel" caused by a party fight. From an illegitimate child and homeless orphan from the British West Indies, he rose to become George Washington's most trusted right-hand man, but was later involved in a sex scandal and died in a duel with Vice President Aaron Burr. Among the founding fathers of the United States, no life or death was more dramatic than that of Alexander Hamilton, and no founding father was as credited with laying the foundation for America's later wealth and power. Although he was also one of the founding fathers of the United States, he never became the president of the United States like everyone else, and he seemed to lose badly in the competition with his main political opponent, Thomas Jefferson (Thomas Jefferson). Presumably - and this is the drama of history - after his death, his political legacy, including the "road to industrial statehood" and the establishment of a strong central government, has played an increasingly prominent role in American history since then. Even some presidents who influenced the course of American history, such as Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, implemented policies based on Hamilton's legacy. Hamilton's military and political achievements are very prominent, and we can list a lot of them at will: as Washington's aide-de-camp, he made great contributions to the Revolutionary War, the most famous of which was the Battle of Yorktown in 1781; he was the main author of the Federalist Papers; when Washington was president, he served as Secretary of the Treasury (1789-1795) and created the predecessor of the Federal Reserve, the First Bank of the United States (theFirstBankoftheUnitedStates); as the head of the Federalists, he laid the foundation for the emergence of the two-party system in the United States,..., etc. Hamilton's record as Secretary of the Treasury was overshadowed by his diverse life experiences: a bookkeeper, a college student, a young poet, a critic, an artillery captain, a wartime aide in Washington, a battlefield hero, a congressman, an abolitionist, a creator of the Bank of New York, a member of the Constitutional Committee, an orator, a lawyer, an educator, a foreign policy theorist, and a senior general in the military. "Chernoff's conclusion is persuasive:" If Jefferson provided the necessary pomp for the treatise on American politics, Hamilton wrote the prose on American statecraft. No Founding Father had as much foresight as Hamilton about the future political, military, and economic power of the United States, and no one had as well-crafted a system to unite the country. In his later years, Alexander Hamilton returned to the Christianity of his youth, but when he asked the Trinity Church in New York to give him Holy Communion on his deathbed, he was rejected because he had difficulty giving up the "duel" that was contrary to Christianity - his death was a duel with Jefferson's political enemy, Aaron Burr, when Hamilton agreed to the duel but deliberately misfired the bullet because of his Christian beliefs. Hamilton's eloquence eventually persuaded the church to hold a ceremony for him, saying that he had repented religiously and was willing to make peace with everyone, including Burr. According to the rules of the duel, Hamilton fired first, and curiously, the bullet he fired was far from Bull. Burr, on the other hand, did not relent and shot Hamilton in the right chest. In sorting through Hamilton's posthumous works, people found his diary written the night before the duel. Hamilton said in his diary that he would not shoot tomorrow. Why Hamilton had this intention, and the next day he fired another unhelpful shot and caused his own tragic death, Iris kept the end open and did not make a conclusion. Comment: A great statesman, an outstanding founder of America, will be admired by future generations.