Although there are many reasons that Alexander Hamilton is my favorite Founding Father, in honor of the Broadway show's record-breaking 16 Tony nominations, I have compiled 16 reasons why he should be your favorite Founding Father. Lin-Manuel Miranda, as well as the whole cast and crew, are the reason I dove back into my love for history and my passion for the theater. Following this show from the White House to The Richard Rodgers Theatre has been an honor and I encourage you to take a peek at the Grammy- and now Tony-winning cast as well. Anyway, here are 16 reasons why Alexander Hamilton should be your favorite Founding Father:

1. Did I mention that he was super hunky; I mean look at this guy! He wasn’t called the Little Lion for nothing ladies.

2. He founded the New York Post, which he used regularly to slay our good friends President Tommy J. and John Adams.

3. You know the Coast Guard? Yeah he founded that, too! It is the oldest seagoing service currently held in the United States. And who doesn’t love a man in uniform?

4. The reason you probably know about him now is this great guy named Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote a hip-hop musical about his life, it’s pretty great! If you want tickets they’re not hard to get at all! Just show up to the front door about 10 minutes before show time and you should get some great seats. (Seriously though don’t try that, they’re sold out for months. Believe me I tried, but the Magic City is a little ways away from the Big Apple).

(I mean look at the profile of this glorious man who has given us so much. Follow him on Twitter for daily humor and self confidence boosts)

5. He was super good friends with George and Martha Washington. Martha had a feral cat that she named after him because that cat had a way with the female cats, if you know what I mean.

6. A bastard born child living in the Caribbean, he was able to write his way to the Colonies after his mother died. His writing was so good that the village he lived in actually raised funds for him to go to college in the Colonies. It’s like they knew this kid was going places, and man he did.

7. At the Constitutional Convention, some of the delegates were discussing George Washington’s distance toward mere mortals such as themselves and Gov. Morris told them that they were imagining things. So Hamilton told him to give Gen. Washington a great pat on the shoulder and tell him how great it was to see him and if he did then Hamilton would buy him and 12 of his friends dinner. The next day Morris went through with Hamilton’s dare, Washington immediately removed Morris’ hand from his shoulder and gave him the harshest of death glares. Morris later reported in his journal, OKit was a diary, that the glare Washington gave him made him want to melt off the face of the earth. For the record, Hamilton did pay up and bought Morris and his friends dinner.

8. He was the original Bill Clinton, and by original I mean complete opposite. Instead of saying, “I did not have sexual relations with that woman,” our friend A. Ham wrote a 95-page pamphlet called “Observations on Certain Documents,” about his two year affair with Maria Reynolds. Talk about scandal.

9. Fun fact: George and Martha Washington visited Eliza Hamilton following the pamphlet’s publication and gifted her a very nice vase. Didn’t know vases were the type of gift you gave to someone who was publicly humiliated by her husband’s sex scandal. Hope the Kennedys sent Hillary a nice one, too.

10. Married Elizabeth Schuyler, whom he called Betsey.

11. Also befriended her sister Angelica Schuyler/Church and she became an easy median between the Treasury Secretary and Secretary of State (our good friend Tommy J.).

12. Oh, the reason the capital is in Washington, D.C., is because Hamilton really wanted a national banking system and he knew that Thomas Jefferson, who had recently spent five years in Paris as the ambassador to France, really wanted to spend more time in his home in Monticello which was in Virginia. So they basically exchanged the two and thus the national banking system and the U.S. capitol were born.

(Here's a lovely picture of Daveed Diggs (Tommy J.) and Lin-Manuel Miranda (A.Ham) performing one of the rap battles featured in the show. I'm sure the cabinet battles between Jefferson and Hamilton were as dramatic and intense as the two featured in the musical).

13. He had eight children with his wife Eliza. One of his children, Alexander Jr., defended Eliza Jumel in her divorce from Aaron Burr. So yes, revenge is sweet, even for founding fathers.

14. His first child, Phillip, died almost the exact same way as his father, he even died in the same New Jersey town. Dueling was illegal in New York at the time and like Lin-Manuel says, “Everything is legal is New Jersey." Upon hearing that his son had been shot in a duel it was said that Alexander Hamilton collapsed from shock. He rarely spoke about his first born following his death.

(See Phillip was just as hunky as his father)

15. One time Hamilton caught a deadly cold and Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to James Madison basically saying, “Hope this is gonna be the thing that does him in J)

Cool picture of Daveed Diggs and a portrait of Tommy J.

Here's one of Okieriete Onaodowan who plays James Madison and Hercules Mulligan.

16. The reason Hamilton was killed by Aaron Burr was because Aaron Burr was neck and neck with Thomas Jefferson for the presidency and Hamilton’s opinion drastically changed the outcome of that election. Hamilton basically said, “I hate Thomas Jefferson … but I hate Aaron Burr more sooooooo.” He basically tore Aaron Burr to shreds by saying he had no true political values so Burr was like, “How about you say that to my face!” and Ham was like, “OK,” and they brought guns and shot at each other.

Listen, there are plenty of reasons to love Alexander Hamilton, in fact there’s definitely more than 16 but that’s for you to discover. These were just some of my favorite facts about my favorite Founding Father. He's really incredible, no matter what President Jefferson and Madison have to say about him!

To be honest, I've loved Alexander Hamilton's story since I was a wee APUSH student. I was also a theater student who lost my passion for this fantastic form of art. While I hadn't left the art world completely, following "Hamilton's" success from poetry night at the White House to Broadway has made me want to jump back into it. And as I write this on the eve of the Tony Awards, a show that also inspired me to pursue my art, I hope that "Hamilton" will leave many more theater-goers breathless and utterly inspired. Maybe I'll get to see it live one day, but until then I'll happily be singing along to the soundtrack and wearing my "I'm listening to 'Hamilton' Non-Stop" T-shirt like nobody's business.