Theodore Hamilton

Name: James Theodore Hamilton Von Coburg
Party: Federalist
District: Virginia
DoB: December 24, 1750
Birthplace: Ehrenburg Palace, Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Residence: Richmond, Virginia
Religion: Congregationalist


Biography: His Excellency Prince James Theodore Hamilton Von Coburg was born as Prince of Saxe-Coburg on December 24, 1750 as presumptive heir, James would live a quiet life growing up in the finery of the salons of Europe and receiving the finest education available attending a french school in France for his formative years and proceeding to attend Oxford University for his higher education mastering a degree in law. Upon his completion of a formal degree James entered service with the Spanish Navy preferring the adventure on the high seas in battling pirates around the Mediterranean. Upon age 24 James was entrusted with his own command of a Spanish Galleon the Reina del Tesoro personally commissioned by the Queen of Spain to carry out duties in defeating pirates in the Mediterranean and delivering cargo from the Spanish colonies back to the homeland. During one such battle the galleon came under heavy fire from 3 large pirate vessels and had its main mast blown off by a direct cannon shot by the pirates off the Barbary coast. The pirates boarded and proceeded to engage the gentlemen in fine combat at short range, James fought most valiantly but found himself betwixt a perilous ending and the obligation to duty and honour. James sought to defend the ship with honour and charged headlong into a group of twenty pirates scattering them with three shots off a blunderbuss and then a quick slash with his rapier which he drew into quick combat against the pirates. But alas combat against such a large multitude of pirates, those fiends who fight with such barbarism, proved to be too much for James who was run through the leg by one of those pirate fiends in quick order. James fell to the deck and was carried back to the pirate ship where he was attended to by a surgeon whilst chained to a large cedar in the ships infirmary quarters. James would be taken back to the Barbary Coast and imprisoned in a fortress for a period of six months where his small slice of window provided him with a view of the outside world and not much else.

At the end of his six months James was summoned out of the fortress and attended to by attendants and told that while he was sleeping a woman from Arabia had seen him in his cell and desired to meet him, he was dressed in finery the likes of which he had not seen for quite sometime and was attended to by the best physicians to make sure he was at his best health. James was taken out of his cell and into a large room in a palace by the sea where he was taken into a magnificent throne room on which sat a man who was announced in broken spanish as "Mohammed II" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_III_of_Morocco), Mohammed rose from his throne and walked down to where James stood and laughed and then clapped his hands and James was taken out of the room quickly and introduced to a beautiful woman who wore nothing but a sheer film of silk, James was told that this would be his wife and that he had been granted his freedom on the condition that he convert to the teachings of Islam and agree to live as a subject of Mohammed II. James realizing this could be his one attempt at freedom decided to play along and accepted the terms of this agreement, James fornicated with his new wife soon after and concieved a son that was named Ismail and they soon departed in the dark of night for the shipyards where James along with several of his servants stole away on a corsair ship from the harbor of Marrakesh and took off at the dead of night flying the dread flag of the Barbary Pirates. They set their course in a new direction this time towards the coast of his childhood which they achieved in record time only taking two weeks as opposed to the standard four week journey. Upon docking James returned to his family home only to find that his brother had assumed the throne, in much chagrin James attempted to mount a coup to restore the throne only to be exiled by his brother and placed on a ship for America with a deed granted to him by the King of England to a large estate in Virginia. Upon arrival James quickly found that America had begun to be ransacked by protest and by violent strains of dissolution. James sided with the colonists realising that their mutual struggle was not much different than the struggles he faced throughout his life, James would join General Washington and his attache Alexander Hamilton in the Battle of Concord in which James led a heroic charge of cavalry against British cannon slicing and dicing the heads of the British in true Barbary fashion and then affixing the heads on pikes causing general terror among the British lines at seeing such barbarism.

The time that James spent amongst the Barbary Pirates cultivated in him the strong principles of honour that he had instilled in him as a young man in the courts of Europe's monarchial society but it was the ruthlessness in combat that James brought with him into the colonies. James would end up leading a secret group of colonial militia fighters in a campaign of terror against the British forces slicing men's heads off while they slept and affixing them to the mantle of the homes that they were in to scare off anyone thinking of becoming a loyalist. Their campaign worked and soon word came that the commanders of the British forces had put a personal ransom on the head of James desiring to see his soon demise and a permanant end to the devestating attacks that James had affixiated on the lives of the British soldiers. Soon the war was finished with the surrender of British and Hessian forces and James returned to his estate of over 400,000 acres in Virginia and began to accumulate a vast number of slaves to work on the plantation acres cultivating large crops of cotton, rice and sugar cane, these slaves were transported from the West Indies and within a year James purchased an additional 50,000 acres of land in the states of Georgia and South Carolina and placed former colleagues from the war to manage them, these plantations to this day continue to be some of the most profitable enterprise that James has ever involved himself in. With a desire to be more personally involved in the affairs of the country and the direction that the country would take and with that in mind he ran for a seat in the Congress which he handily won and now represents Virginia as a Federalist party member.