created and dominated hamilton created and dominated the federalist party huh nobody created the federalist party it didn't have a founding convention or a recruitment list it began as a caucus of officials already serving it is equally peculiar to find hamilton's relations to the party described as domination usually the party boss doesn't have to intrigue largely unsuccessfully against two of the party's nominations for high office nor risk his life to secure a third he picks himself and nobody argues that's what dominate means pmanderson