Burr, Aaron

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1. A political leader who served as vice president of the United States in the first term of Thomas Jefferson (1801–1805). After Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in the Burr-Hamilton duel, his career declined. He was later involved in a bizarre conspiracy to sever the western states and territories from the Union. Burr was tried for treason but was acquitted.

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As I flailed and gyrated – “I dreamed a dream in time gone byeeee … Aaron Burr Aaron Burr” – I caught the woman judge looking at me.

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Burr, Aaron: introduces "spoils system" in New York, 81; compared with Benedict Arnold, 163.

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Burr, Aaron, trial and acquittal of, 45; death of, 339.

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Burr, Aaron, interview of Jefferson and Madison with, 175.

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