(1755 - 1804) a soldier and political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; a founding father (one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence) of the United States. Hamilton advised GeorgeWashington (first president of the US) in the Revolutionary War and was a leader in the drafting of the Constitution. He later served under Washington as the first secretary of the treasury in the new government. —SHSBC Binder 15 Approved Glossary