Aaron Burr
“I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.”
-Aaron Burr
That quote is from Aaron Burr and I think it just about sums up how he lived his life. He made some quite controversial decisions, did some things that were just a little odd, and made some pretty trigger happy choices. I think we can attribute most of his actions to his intense ambition. At one point he even tried to make his own “empire” out the land from the Louisiana Purchase. He had many occupations over his life. He was a successful lawyer, an interesting politician, and served in the Revolution. So, I think that Aaron Burr is an important figure in American history because of his successful time in the war and his term as
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He was born to Esther Edwards Burr and Aaron Burr Sr. She was a writer and his father was a Presbyterian minister and founder/president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University.) At just nineteen months of age, Burr’s father died. Within the next year, so did his mother. He and his sister went to live with their grandparents, but they died also! I think that these events had a huge effect on who he would later become. They then went to live with their very wealthy uncle and he didn’t die, so that’s pretty cool. Even at a very young age, he showed signs of brilliance. He was admitted to Princeton University, (College of New Jersey at the time,) at 13 after being previously rejected at age 11. He graduated summa cum laude at age 16 with a Bachelor in Arts. Later, at age 19, he went to study law in …show more content…
He won over a seat in the senate from Philip Schuyler, the father in law of Alexander Hamilton. This sparked a bitter rivalry between Burr and Hamilton that eventually resulted in Burr killing Hamilton in a duel. Some of Aaron Burr’s big accomplishments were establishing a successful law practice, becoming a really great lawyer, and being appointed state general attorney in 1789 . When he was 51 years old, he was charged with treason for trying to found a new land with himself as the “emperor.” He was acquitted though. Another obvious pitfall, was killing Alexander