84 Facts About Leonard Hamilton

1. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

2. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

3. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

4. Leonard Hamilton teams are always long and athletic, something the Irish are not and that should bother them trying to get shots off.

5. Leonard Hamilton said Thursday that White might be among the fastest guards UNC has ever had.

6. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

7. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

8. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

9. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

10. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

11. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

12. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

13. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

14. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

15. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

16. Leonard Hamilton actively worked to defeat Burr, who lost a close election.

17. At the precocious age of seventeen, Leonard Hamilton began speaking to patriot rallies and writing a series of pamphlets highly critical of British policies.

18. Leonard Hamilton supported Burr's Democratic-Republican opponent in the election, and Burr was ultimately defeated.

19. Leonard Hamilton publicly ridiculed Burr's capabilities, and some of his comments about Burr were published in a New York newspaper.

20. Leonard Hamilton proceeded to build the army, anticipating military glory .

21. Leonard Hamilton continued taking part in foreign policy matters in 1793.

22. Leonard Hamilton participated in almost every key decision involving financial, domestic, or foreign policy issues during George Washington's presidency.

23. Leonard Hamilton won this battle and the first national bank was established.

24. Leonard Hamilton responded by invoking the "implied powers" clause of the Constitution for the first time.

25. Leonard Hamilton estimated that the nation owed $11 million to foreign lenders and $42 million to individual American citizens and companies that had helped finance the American Revolution.

26. Leonard Hamilton quickly became a dominating influence in President Washington's administration.

27. Leonard Hamilton wanted to provide US manufacturers with money for expansion and stimulate foreign trade.

28. Leonard Hamilton was the obvious second choice, and he eagerly accepted.

29. Leonard Hamilton wrote at least fifty-one of the essays on his own and three with Madison.

30. Leonard Hamilton had no authority to sign the Constitution on behalf of New York, because he was essentially outvoted two to one in the New York delegation.

31. Leonard Hamilton drafted the proposal for the second meeting of states, a meeting that was destined to become the Constitutional Convention.

32. Leonard Hamilton was one of twelve delegates to attend the meeting, which took place in Annapolis, Maryland.

33. Leonard Hamilton left his Congress seat in 1783 to open a private law practice on Wall Street in New York City.

34. Leonard Hamilton was greatly influenced by what he observed during the war as General Washington's trusted adviser.

35. Leonard Hamilton was an avid reader and excelled in his studies.

36. Leonard Hamilton sought to put limits on republicanism.

37. Leonard Hamilton sought to reshape the American economy, which was primarily agricultural in the eighteenth century.

38. Leonard Hamilton was a key member of President Washington's Cabinet, and the president commonly adopted Hamilton's ideas instead of the recommendations of other officials.

39. Leonard Hamilton persuaded Washington to declare America neutral in the war that had broken out between Great Britain and revolutionary France.

40. Leonard Hamilton persuaded President Washington to raise an army of 15,000 men and crush the Whiskey Rebellion.

41. Leonard Hamilton sided with the Americans, writing rebellious essays and giving defiant speeches.

42. Leonard Hamilton was buried the next day in Manhattan's Trinity Churchyard.

43. Leonard Hamilton trusted Jefferson far more than he did Burr, who was a successful New York lawyer, like Hamilton himself, and had served as a US senator from New York.

44. Leonard Hamilton hoped to get Thomas Pinckney elected president, a job Adams wanted for himself.

45. Leonard Hamilton assumed a leadership role at the Federalist Party convention of 1796.

46. Leonard Hamilton had a very active and creative mind, and during his term as Treasury secretary, he offered many proposals to the new Congress.

47. At the meeting, Leonard Hamilton agreed to support Jefferson's proposal to place the new capitol of the United States on Virginia's Potomac River in exchange for Jefferson's support of Hamilton's measures.

48. Leonard Hamilton served at the helm of the Treasury Department from 1789 to 1795.

49. Leonard Hamilton was present at the New York Convention in 1787, where state representatives met to decide whether or not New York would ratify the proposed constitution.

50. Leonard Hamilton had begun his career in national politics a year earlier in 1786, when he attended a convention in Maryland to discuss national governmental issues that were not covered by the Articles of Confederation.

51. Leonard Hamilton took part in his first public act of resistance against the British when he spoke out at a rally in a New York City park.

52. Leonard Hamilton became an outspoken critic of Burr, a personal and political rival.

53. Leonard Hamilton injected himself into every major decision on financial, domestic, and foreign policy that could help make the United States a commercial powerhouse.

54. Leonard Hamilton believed the federal government should promote a strong economy by bolstering commerce.

55. Leonard Hamilton supported the cause of the revolution, but he eventually criticized the American government set up in 1781 under the Articles of Confederation.

56. Leonard Hamilton became interested in politics as a student at King's College, where he wrote his first pamphlets defending the colonists' War of Independence, or the American Revolution.

57. Leonard Hamilton died in the duel at Weehawken, New Jersey, on July 11, 1804.

58. Leonard Hamilton believed that the states should be subordinate to the federal government.

59. Leonard Hamilton was entrusted with his general's correspondence, sent on many sensitive missions, and eventually made Washington's liaison with French military commanders who supported the Revolutionary army.

60. Leonard Hamilton actively stood against Burr's bid for the New York governorship.

61. Leonard Hamilton believed that Vice President Aaron Burr, whom he referred to as "the most unfit and dangerous man of the community", was involved with this plan.

62. From this point on Leonard Hamilton believed in, and tried to work to bring about, a strong central government.

63. Leonard Hamilton lost the case, but his position soon became the law in New York and in many other states.

64. Leonard Hamilton argued for a prompt and generally strict execution of the law.

65. At the Constitutional Convention, Leonard Hamilton proposed an elected president and senate to serve during good behavior.

66. Leonard Hamilton organized the writing of The Federalist Papers and contributed a little more than half the essays.

67. Leonard Hamilton advised Federalists to respond to Jeffersonian democracy by spreading their principles to the common people he had long ignored through political organization and newspapers such as the New-York Evening Post, which he helped found in 1801.

68. Leonard Hamilton had the satisfaction of seeing Adams defeated in 1800 only to have the election come down to a choice between two men he despised: Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.

69. Leonard Hamilton contemplated the possibility of using the army to put down political opposition to Federalist policies such as the Alien and Sedition Acts.

70. Leonard Hamilton retired from political office in 1795, but he did not retire from politics.

71. Leonard Hamilton voted for Jefferson instead of Burr, partly because he could stand Burr even less than his ideological rival.

72. Leonard Hamilton decided to rejoin the Army as a major general.

73. Leonard Hamilton came to resent the limits of his position as aide to Washington and aspired to greater challenges.

74. Leonard Hamilton spent his early years in poverty, traveling to different islands with his father.

75. Leonard Hamilton was carried back to New York City, where he died the next afternoon.

76. Leonard Hamilton submitted other significant reports which Congress accepted, including a plan for an excise on spirits and a report on the establishment of a Mint.

77. Leonard Hamilton was inducted into the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame in 2013.

78. Leonard Hamilton started his college career at Gaston Community College in North Carolina, setting a program record after he scored 54 points in a single game.

79. Leonard Hamilton spent four years as the head coach at Oklahoma State, from 1986 to 1990, and worked as an assistant at both Kentucky and Austin Peay.

80. Leonard Hamilton is the first coach to be named coach of the year in both the Big East and ACC.

81. Leonard Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10, 2009, and a second time in 2012.

82. Leonard Hamilton was on the staffs of the Kentucky teams that finished as the NCAA runner up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship and went to the 1984 Final Four.

83. Leonard Hamilton is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards.

84. Leonard Hamilton has won eight games against Florida—more than any other coach in FSU history.