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Born June 6, 1756 • Lebanon • Connecticut
Died November 10, 1843 (aged 87) • New York City • New York

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Oil portrait by John Trumbull of Alexander Hamilton, shown from the waist up in a tan coat and white cravat, gazing to his left against a dark background.
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