Aaron Burr
About Aaron Burr
The third Vice President of the United States, serving under Jefferson. Burr is infamous for killing Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. He was dropped from the 1804 ticket. Later, Burr was tried for treason in 1807 for allegedly conspiring to create a separate nation in the western territories, but was acquitted. His political career was destroyed by the Hamilton duel and the treason trial. Burr lived in exile in Europe before returning to practice law in New York in obscurity.
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