Columbia College is the oldest undergraduate college of Columbia University, a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity
First skin of the Charter of King's College, 1754
College Hall in 1790
Hamilton Hall (left), new home of Columbia College, and Hartley Hall, the college's first dormitory, in 1907
Columbia College bulletin
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Alexander Hamilton was an American military officer, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury from 1789 to 1795 under the presidency of George Washington.
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…It was renamed Columbia College in 1784 following the American Revolution, and in 1787 was placed under a private board of trustees headed by alumni Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. Columbia College is distinctive for its comprehensive Core Curriculum and is among the most selective of American colleges, with an…
Posthumous portrait by John Trumbull, 1806, from a life bust by Giuseppe Ceracchi, 1794
Alexander Hamilton in the Uniform of the New York Artillery, a portrait by Alonzo Chappel
Portrait of Hamilton authoring the first draft of the U.S. Constitution in 1787
A statue of Hamilton on the south patio of the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.