Here is some more sanctimonious crap that has yet to be called out...
JEREMIAH G. HAMILTON
HON. JERROLD NADLER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Mr. NADLER.
Madam Speaker, as we celebrate Black History Month, I rise today to commemorate the life of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, the first black millionaire in the United States, whose story has been absent from the history books. I have the honor of representing the district in which Mr. Hamilton lived and
worked.
Born in the West Indies in 1807, Mr. Hamilton made his way to New York in 1828 and began amassing his fortune by selling stocks to both black and white entrepreneurs. He was touted as being astute in successfully predicting the markets and became a prominent financier and businessman on Wall Street in
the pre-Civil War era.
Mr. Hamilton defied many conventions of his time as he rose to the top of the business world. He owned stock of railroad companies on whose trains he was not legally allowed to ride. He married a white woman named Eliza
Morris and had a close relationship with his friend Benjamin Day, who was the publisher of the Sun Newspaper. He took on titans of industry, including battling Cornelius Vanderbilt over control of the Accessory Transit Company until he got a settlement. In fact, in Vanderbilt’s obituary it is stated, ‘‘There was only one man who ever fought the Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah
Hamilton . . . the Commodore respected him.’’
However, Mr. Hamilton faced the horrors of the rampant racism and violence against African-Americans in the mid-19th century. In the 1830s, insurance companies blackballed him and refused to underwrite his business ventures. During the draft riots in 1863, white men unsuccessfully sought to lynch Mr. Hamilton in his own home.
Jeremiah G. Hamilton died in 1875, leaving behind an estate of $2 million, which would be around $45 million today.
It is vital that the history of America reflects
the lives of all Americans, and I am proud to help share some of the lost history from the 10th Congressional District. Madam Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues
to join me in recognizing not only the life of Jeremiah G. Hamilton but the dedicated work of both the Committee to Commemorate Jeremiah G. Hamilton and historian Shane White to create a permanent place in history for the
first African-American millionaire.
The Committee to Commemorate Jeremiah G. Hamilton was established in February 2018 by community activists, including Dr. Sam D. Albert, Hon. Louise Dankberg, Hon. Alan J. Gerson, Gail Green, Barbara Guinan, Greg Lambert, Esq., Christine Merritt, Hon. Daisy Paez, Mark P. Thompson, Leona Zeplin and the Committee’s Co-Chairs Dolores Leito and Hon. Michelle D. Winfield.
Here is some more sanctimonious crap that has yet to be called out...
JEREMIAH G. HAMILTON
HON. JERROLD NADLER OF NEW YORK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Thursday, February 28, 2019
Mr. NADLER.
Madam Speaker, as we celebrate Black History Month, I rise today to commemorate the life of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, the first black millionaire in the United States, whose story has been absent from the history books. I have the honor of representing the district in which Mr. Hamilton lived and worked.
Born in the West Indies in 1807, Mr. Hamilton made his way to New York in 1828 and began amassing his fortune by selling stocks to both black and white entrepreneurs. He was touted as being astute in successfully predicting the markets and became a prominent financier and businessman on Wall Street in the pre-Civil War era.
Mr. Hamilton defied many conventions of his time as he rose to the top of the business world. He owned stock of railroad companies on whose trains he was not legally allowed to ride. He married a white woman named Eliza Morris and had a close relationship with his friend Benjamin Day, who was the publisher of the Sun Newspaper. He took on titans of industry, including battling Cornelius Vanderbilt over control of the Accessory Transit Company until he got a settlement. In fact, in Vanderbilt’s obituary it is stated, ‘‘There was only one man who ever fought the Commodore to the end, and that was Jeremiah Hamilton . . . the Commodore respected him.’’
However, Mr. Hamilton faced the horrors of the rampant racism and violence against African-Americans in the mid-19th century. In the 1830s, insurance companies blackballed him and refused to underwrite his business ventures. During the draft riots in 1863, white men unsuccessfully sought to lynch Mr. Hamilton in his own home.
Jeremiah G. Hamilton died in 1875, leaving behind an estate of $2 million, which would be around $45 million today.
It is vital that the history of America reflects the lives of all Americans, and I am proud to help share some of the lost history from the 10th Congressional District. Madam Speaker, I ask all of my colleagues to join me in recognizing not only the life of Jeremiah G. Hamilton but the dedicated work of both the Committee to Commemorate Jeremiah G. Hamilton and historian Shane White to create a permanent place in history for the first African-American millionaire.
The Committee to Commemorate Jeremiah G. Hamilton was established in February 2018 by community activists, including Dr. Sam D. Albert, Hon. Louise Dankberg, Hon. Alan J. Gerson, Gail Green, Barbara Guinan, Greg Lambert, Esq., Christine Merritt, Hon. Daisy Paez, Mark P. Thompson, Leona Zeplin and the Committee’s Co-Chairs Dolores Leito and Hon. Michelle D. Winfield.
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https://www.congress.gov/116/crec/2019/02/28/CREC-2019-02-28.pdf
https://youtu.be/4jcCwmtVAIM?t=5