And let us not forget Declaration of Independence signer James Wilson (Carskerdo, Scotland), U.S. Robert Morris, the banker known as the “financier of the American Revolution,” left Liverpool, England, in 1747. Albert Gallatin, the secretary of the Treasury who helped negotiate the end of the War of 1812 and co-founded New York University, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. George Washington and his troops at Valley Forge with his The American Crisis pamphlet and its opening line, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” He hailed from Thetford, England. Besides Hamilton, there was Thomas Paine, the radical political journalist who gave hope to Gen. Constitution states that only “a natural born Citizen” can serve as commander in chief, it does include an exemption for anyone who was a “Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution.” In fact, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, there were a slew of immigrants on such an elevated career trajectory. But Alexander Hamilton still could have been president.
Yes, he was born outside the United States.
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