As part of homecoming at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, the Class of 1963 gifted the campus a monument of Alexander Hamilton.
They unveiled the $250,000 gift Friday morning.
The first Secretary of the Treasury is considered the “Father of the U.S. Coast Guard.”
The wife of Hamilton’s late great-great grandson, Laurens Morgan Hamilton, was present. Mary Anne Hamilton said her late husband—who’s also the grandson of J.P. Morgan—has spoken at the Coast Guard Academy before and would be thrilled about this tribute.
“For so long my husband and his family were trying to get people to acknowledge Hamilton…and show how great he was,” Hamilton said.
“He’s the father of the Coast Guard and he should be here. And he should be the first big monument that we have here at the Coast Guard Academy,” Mike Burdian, president of the USCGA Class of 1963.
The Hamilton monument stands in front of Hamilton Hall.
