Episode 1160
Aaron Burr
Mon, 2020-Jul-06 01:16 UTC
Length - 3:16
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With 374,092 views on Sunday, 5 July 2020 our article of the day is Aaron Burr.
Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician and lawyer. He was the third vice president of the United States (1801–1805), serving during President Thomas Jefferson's first term.
Burr served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War, after which he became a successful lawyer and politician. He was elected twice to the New York State Assembly (1784–1785 and 1798–1799), was appointed Attorney General of New York (1789–1791), was chosen as a U. S. senator (1791–1797) from the State of New York, and reached the apex of his career as vice president. In the waning months of his tenure as president of the Senate, he oversaw the 1805 impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.
As campaign manager for the Democratic-Republican Party during the presidential election of 1800, Burr (along with his unofficial campaign team, known as the Little Band) was responsible for the first open, public political campaign in the United States. Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel, during the last full year of his single term as vice president. He was never tried, though the duel was illegal, and all charges against him eventually were dropped; nevertheless, Hamilton's death ended Burr's political career.
Burr left Washington, D. C., and traveled west, seeking new opportunities, both economic and political; further, he left behind the controversy surrounding him in more cosmopolitan parts of the country. His activities eventually led to his arrest on charges of treason in 1807. He was tried multiple times, but acquitted; nevertheless, the fallout left him with large debts and few influential friends. To avoid vigilante execution, and further charges by the state, he left the United States for Europe. He remained overseas until 1812, when he returned to the United States to practice law in New York City. He spent the rest of his life there, in relative obscurity.
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