Edmund Morgan Quotes
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
Morgan, Edmund S. American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
Welliver was the first of the American presidential speechwriters. President Harding was the one who used the term in public.
Jefferson wrote more on more subjects than any other president in American history. For exa,ple, he wrote more letters during his presidency than any other president including the modern ones who had word processors and large staffs. So Jefferson wrote on almost every subject and expressed so many ideas that Lincoln could make this statement.
Madison was the first Presidential Speech Writer.
Martha Washington herself endured the winter hardships of Valley Forge with the troops whose morale was much uplifted by her presence. The Tom Cat howled at night attracting females waking her and others. She gave the name as Alexander Hamilton was one of her husband’s key aids and attractive women were constantly visiting him in the camp. He had always had a very active romantic life. There is no record of whether he thought the appellation humorous or was insulted by it.
Anti-slavery opponents had cited the equality argument of the Declaration of Independence to buttress their argument.
Adams liked hardly anyone. Washington, his fellow Federalist was President when Adams was Vice President. He had little use for fellow Federalist leader Alexander Hamilton. See {621582} . Washington was by no means illiterate. He was an excellent writer, and was a trained surveyor who also had strong mathematical skills. The founding fathers were an amazingly well educated group of men, and Washington was about average in that rarefied atmosphere. Jefferson and Hamilton who arguably were far more learned than Adams, and who worked with Washington in his cabinet, never complained about Washington's intellectual or education capability. The problem was Adams who was critical of almost all.
His Fundamentals of New York Law was used for teaching law for years.
Edmund Sears Morgan was an American historian, an eminent authority on early American history. He was Emeritus Professor of History at Yale University, where he taught from 1955 to 1986. He specialized in American colonial history, with some attention to English history. Thomas S. Kidd says he was noted for his incisive writing style, "simply one of the best academic prose stylists America has ever produced." He covered many topics, including Puritanism, political ideas, the American Revolution, slavery, historiography, family life, and numerous notables such as Benjamin Franklin.
