National Affairs: Great-Great-Grandson

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Last week friends of Alexander Hamilton, 27, Harvard 1925, Wall Street banker, great-great-grandson of Federalist Alexander Hamilton, nephew of John Pierpont Morgan (his mother Juliet was a daughter of the late, great Morgan), called to the attention of editors of Republican newspapers in Manhattan Scion Hamilton's candidacy for a seat in the New York State Senate. First to interview him, to print his picture, was the New York Evening Post, founded by his great-great-grandfather (with John Jay) three years before he was shot to death by Aaron Burr on Weehawken Heights (1804).

Announced Candidate Hamilton:

"In my campaign I shall work as hard as I know how. I shall try to meet as many people as possible."

Question: What do you imagine your great-great-grandfather would have thought of Prohibition?

Answer: I doubt if he, as a Federalist, would have risked jeopardizing his party's integrity by attempting to enforce an unenforceable law.