Freedomists
This is a new series of definitives. They look pretty nice. I like the drawings, although the framing is minimal. I particularly like the stamps of General Robert Lee and Alexander Hamilton.
Alexander Hamilton
Hamilton is one of the most well known of the founders of the U.S. that wasn’t a president – probably because his image has been on the ten-dollar bill for decades. However, the general public knows very little of his life.
Hamilton was born in the British Leeward Islands – which would have precluded him from becoming president. He was an orphan that was adopted by a wealthy merchant who sent him to school in New York. He wrote and published many pamplets, a popular thing to do at the time, that promoted the idea of breaking free of colonial rule.
When the revolution started, Hamilton first served as an officer in the Artillery. Incidentally, I was a forwarder observer in the Washington Artillery. He later beame the personal assistant to General George Washington, his aide-de-camp for four years.
After the war, he was the New York representative of the third Continental Congress, before the Constitution was written – which he helped to draft and signed. During this time, he founded the Bank of New York. When the United States officially started with George Washington as its first president, Hamilton was appointed as the first Secretary of Treasury.
In the year 1800, Thomas Jefferson ran for president against Aaron Burr, a U.S. Senator from New York. Hamilton, a fellow New Yorker, liked Jefferson and despised Burr. He spoken against Burr in public many times, which contributed to him losing the election. He was, however, made Vice President by the Congress – something they would sometimes do at that time.
At the end of Jefferson’s first term, he chose someone else to be his running mate. So Burr ran instead for Governor of New York. He lost by plenty to a fairly unknown opponent, mostly because of excessive amounts of public criticism of Burr from a few people, Hamilton being one of them. Upset by his humiliating defeat and the possible end of his political career, Burr challenged Hamilton to a dual. Hamilton was killed.
Note
This page is complete with all unused stamps. It took a bit of time for me to get them. The last one of Hamilton was a little pricey. I bought it recently from a dealer in New York.
Contains 15 spots: own 15 – 15 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 23, 2025
Stamp Details
The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.
spot |
own |
catalog |
subject |
description |
comment |
Liberty Definitives
✓ |
1030 |
½c (oct 1955) |
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✓ |
1031 |
1c (aug 1954) |
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✓ |
1033 |
2c (sep 1954) |
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✓ |
1036 |
4c (nov 1954) |
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✓ |
1038 |
5c (dec 1954) |
|||
✓ |
1039 |
6c (nov 1955) |
|||
✓ |
1040 |
7c (jan 1956) |
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✓ |
1045 |
12c (jun 1959) |
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✓ |
1046 |
15c (dec 1958) |
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✓ |
1048 |
25c (apr 1958) |
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✓ |
1049 |
30c (sep 1955) |
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✓ |
1050 |
40c (sep 1955) |
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✓ |
1051 |
50c (aug 1955) |
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✓ |
1052 |
$1 (oct 1955) |
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✓ |
1053 |
5$ (mar 1956) |
Footnotes
Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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