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George I. Eacker (c. 1774 – January 4, 1804) was a New York lawyer. He is best known for having fatally shot Philip Hamilton, the eldest son of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton, in a duel on November 23, 1801, in Weehawken, New Jersey.
Sep 14, 2023 · Alexander Hamilton's son Philip Hamilton was just 19 when he was shot by George Eacker in a duel in New York in 1801. He died 14 hours later.
Sep 27, 2018 · George Eacker was a wealthy young New York attorney best known for shooting Philip Hamilton in a duel.
Hamilton’s 19-year-old son Philip was killed in a duel near present-day Jersey City in November 1801 that had resulted from Philip’s conflict with George Eacker, a Democratic-Republican who maligned Philip’s father in a speech. Hamilton père’s strong sense of personal honor had led him to issue several challenges earlier in his life ...
Jul 15, 2016 · 7. GEORGE EACKER. The New York City lawyer who killed Alexander Hamilton’s son Philip in November 1801 only ended up outliving him by a few years.
Nov 27, 2012 · While Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr’s 1804 duel is notorious in history and pop culture, a lesser-known deadly duel occurred three years earlier between Hamilton’s oldest son, Philip, and George Eacker, a critic of Hamilton and supporter of Burr.
There they spotted a 27-year-old Republican lawyer named George Eacker. Four months earlier, Eacker had given a speech suggesting that Alexander Hamilton wanted to use the U.S. Army, of which...
