Alexander Hamilton Papers

Election by the Adjourned General Meeting of the Society of the Cincinnati, 5 May 1800

Election by the Adjourned General Meeting
of the Society of the Cincinnati

Philadelphia, May 5, 1800. “On Motion, The meeting proceeded to the election of a President General to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of General Washington, when Major General Alexander Hamilton was unanimously chosen President General.…”

“Journals of the Cincinnati, 1784–1787, Vol. I,” 102, Library of Congress.

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