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Aaron Burr Jr. (February 6, 1756 – September 14, 1836) was an American politician, ... Burr's Democratic-Republican slate of assemblymen was elected, giving the ...
Democratic-Republican: Federalist: Home state Virginia: Massachusetts: Electoral vote 14: 1 Popular vote 12,306: 12,217 Percentage 50.18%: 49.82% Nominee Aaron Burr ...
Democratic-Republican: Virginia: 45,511 60.6% 73 (Vice Presidential Candidate) Aaron Burr: Democratic-Republican: New York — — 73 John Adams (incumbent) Federalist: Massachusetts: 29,621 39.4% 65 (Vice Presidential Candidate)Charles Cotesworth Pinckney: Federalist: South Carolina — — 64 John Jay: Federalist: New York — — 1 Other (d ...
Jefferson received 68 electoral votes and was elected vice president. Former governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina, a Federalist, finished with 59 electoral votes, while Senator Aaron Burr, a Democratic-Republican from New York, won 30 electoral votes. The remaining 48 electoral votes were dispersed among nine other candidates.
Nonetheless, the Democratic-Republican congressional nominating caucus chose Jefferson as the party's presidential nominee, in the belief that he would be the party's strongest candidate; the caucus chose Senator Aaron Burr of New York as Jefferson's running mate. [28]
Aaron Burr brilliantly organized his forces in New York City in the spring elections for the state legislature. By a few hundred votes, he carried the city—and thus the state legislature—and guaranteed the election of a Republican president. As a reward, he was selected by the Republican caucus in Congress as their vice presidential ...
During Trump’s second impeachment trial in 2021, Burr was among seven Senate Republicans who joined Democrats in voting to convict Trump for the events of Jan. 6.
Democratic-Republican Aaron Burr had been elected in 1791 after the Assembly rejected incumbent Philip Schuyler. At the State election in April 1796, Federalist majorities were elected to both houses of the 20th New York State Legislature which met from November 1 to 11, 1796, at New York City , and from January 3 to April 3, 1797, at Albany ...