Alexander Hamilton Papers

Honorary Degree from Rhode Island College, 4 September 1792

Honorary Degree from Rhode Island College

Providence, September 4, 1792. “Voted, That the Degree of Doctor of Laws be conferred on … the Hon. Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.”1

MS minutes, Brown University—Corporation Minutes, 1764– , Brown University Archives, John Hay Library, Providence.

1. For an account of the commencement of Rhode Island College on September 5, 1792, at which this degree was conferred on H, who was not present, see the Providence Gazette and Country Journal, September 8, 1792.

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    Honorary Degree from Rhode Island College, 4 September 1792
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    Hamilton, Alexander
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    4 September 1792

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    “Honorary Degree from Rhode Island College, 4 September 1792,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-26-02-0002-0350. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, vol. 26, 1 May 1802 – 23 October 1804, Additional Documents 1774–1799, Addenda and Errata, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979, p. 681.]