aaron burr

     

Aaron Burr, Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, Revolutionary War hero an adventurer. He served as the third Vice President of the United States under Thomas Jefferson (1801–1805).

Trivia about aaron burr

  • When Alexander Hamilton & James Monroe nearly met in a duel, this man interceded & defused the situation
  • He once wrote to his son-in-law, "In New York I am to be disenfranchised and in New Jersey hanged"
  • Depicted here, he was the first vice president who never became president
  • In July 1804 Alexander Hamilton ended up on the losing end of a duel with this politician
  • This third U.S. vice-president was nicknamed "The Napoleon of the West"
  • ...was the first to be tried for treason
  • "My Theodosia" is the story of this man's daughter, Theodosia Burr Alston, believed to be lost at sea in 1813
  • Thomas Jefferson's veep, he killed a famous man in a famous duel
  • Cyrus Griffin, the last president, went on to be one of the judges at this man's treason trial
  • In 1804, this vice president ran for governor of New York, and lost
  • In 1807 this former VP was tried & acquitted on a charge of treason
  • In 1804 this guy killed a political foe with one shot in New Jersey...You're the V.P., not Tony Soprano! Act like it!
  • A conspiracy led by this former V.P. aimed to set up an independent nation in the Mississippi Valley
  • Jefferson's 1st vice president, he was officially divorced for adultery on the day he died
  • In 1807 Marshall presided over the treason trial of this man
  • Thomas Jefferson's first vice president, he was the grandson of famed theologian Jonathan Edwards
  • While under indictment for murder, this vice president gave a famous farewell address to the Senate in 1805
  • He was the first vice president who didn't go on to become president
  • On Feb. 13, the Times reported Dick Cheney shot a man hunting, the first shooting by a sitting veep since this man
  • He fled to Philadelphia after he shot & mortally wounded Alexander Hamilton
  • This vice president is the title character of a 1973 novel by Gore Vidal
  • A senator during most of the 1790s, he came out of the election of 1800 as vice president
  • On August 3, 1807 his treason trial began in Virginia; he was acquitted on September 1
  • This former VP & Freemason launched a conspiracy to take over the U.S. Southwest
  • 3 years after the famous duel, he was tried for treason & acquitted
  • The future Dolly Madison was 17 years James' junior when this noted duel winner introduced the 2
  • (Alex reports from Niagara Falls.) The tradition of honeymooning here at the falls began way back in 1801, when the daughter of this then-U.S. vice president came here with her new husband; three years later, dad fought a famous duel
  • In September he was acquitted of treason against the U.S.
  • Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, he was the first Vice President who did not later become President
  • Gen. James Wilkinson turned in this co-conspirator & former VP & got him tried for treason
  • After the 36th ballot in the House of Representatives on Feb.17,1801, Thomas Jefferson won the presidency & this New Yorker, the veep-stakes
  • An association in Annadale, Virginia is devoted to this man, Jefferson's vice-president
  • During this duelist's 1807 trial for treason, Irving struck up a friendship with his daughter, Theodosia
  • Not only did he kill Washington's treasury secretary, he plotted to start his own country in the west
  • In 1792 it was 132 Electoral College votes for Washington, to 1 for this future VP & gun enthusiast
  • Beat Alexander Hamilton's father-in-law to become Senator in 1791, did worse to Alexander Hamilton
  • Closer than Bush & Gore's 271 to 266 was the tie in 1800 with 73 each between Jefferson & this man
  • A peanut-butter-eating Alexander Hamilton buff can't articulate the name of this VP since he hasn't "got milk"
  • In the early 1800s he was "The Napoleon of the West" & "The Great American Rascal"
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew strolls through the gardens at Monticello, Virginia.) For Thomas Jefferson, gardening was a welcome retreat from political life, and never more so than in 1807 when he suffered from migraines & stress due to this former vice president's treason trial
  • Theodosia, the daughter of this third U.S. vice president, was a beautiful child prodigy who spoke 4 languages
  • A N.Y. coroner's inquest came to a finding of murder by this man, Vice President of the United States
  • Early U.S. vice president who was known as the "Napoleon of the West" for his intrigues there
  • In 1807 Jefferson tried to have this man, his first vice president, convicted of treason