Burr, Aaron
soldier, statesman, vice-president of the United States, was born Feb. 6, 1756, in Newark, N. J. In 1777 he was appointed lieutenantcolonel, and distinguished himself as an able and brave officer. He was appointed attorneygeneral of New York in 1789; and from 1791 to 1797 was a member of the United States senate. At the election of president of the United States for the fourth presidential term Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr had each seventy-three votes, and the choice was decided by congress, on the thirty-sixth ballot, in favor of Jefferson for president and Burr for vice-president.
On the 12th of July, 1804, Colonel Burr gave Alexander Hamilton, long his professional rival and political opponent, a mortal wound in a duel. He died Sept. 14, 1836, on Staten Island, N. Y.