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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, businessman, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the third vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805 during Thomas Jefferson's first presidential term.
John Wickham (June 6, 1763 – January 22, 1839) was an American Loyalist, attorney and slaveholder. One of very few Loyalists to achieve any sort of national prominence in the United States after the American Revolution, Wickham may be best remembered for his role defending former Vice President Aaron Burr who was accused of treason but acquitted in 1807.
Theodosia was born in November 1746 to Ann Sands Stillwell (1714–1782) and Theodosius Bartow (1712–1746), an attorney, in Shrewsbury Township, New Jersey. Her mother's family was noted for their beauty and had lived in America since 1638; her father's family had arrived in 1702 when John Bartow was sent to establish a Church of England ...
Aaron Burr, Attorney General of New York; Philip Schuyler, incumbent Senator; Schuyler, the incumbent, and Benson were both Federalists. Burr was not affiliated with the Federalist Party but was considered a moderate member of the emergent Jeffersonian faction that would coalesce as the Democratic-Republican Party the next year.
The school closed in 1833, having educated over 1,100 students, including Aaron Burr and John C. Calhoun. The law school, including Reeve's house, was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1965 as the Tapping Reeve House and Law School, [2] [5] which is owned and operated by the Litchfield Historical Society as a museum displaying life in a ...
Aaron Burr, infamous for shooting Alexander Hamilton in a duel, went on to be charged with treason for a conspiracy in the Ohio River Valley. Aaron Burr was on a mission to commit treason. And ...
Nicholas "Bigbee" [1] Perkins III (1779–1848) [2] was an attorney, federal land agent, and territorial militia officer [3] who played a leading role in the 1807 arrest of Aaron Burr in the Mississippi Territory, now Wakefield, Alabama. [4] [5] Perkins is known for identifying Burr and, along with Edmund P. Gaines, [6] arresting the former ...
He was the longest-serving attorney general in U.S. history. He was also the Anti-Masonic nominee for president in the 1832 election. Wirt grew up in Maryland but pursued a legal career in Virginia, passing the Virginia bar in 1792. After holding various positions, he served as the prosecutor in Aaron Burr's trial for treason.