# What do you (think you) know about Aaron Burr? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 15, 2018, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566 "2018-11-15T16:50:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/21 "2018-11-15T19:16:52Z")
The National Lampoon summed it up perfectly many years ago. “For shooting Aaron Burr, he suffered through years of hatred and calumny. Worse, he was the subject of a novel by Gore Vidal.” ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/22 "2018-11-15T19:28:29Z")
Played by a cute girl in _Drunk History_. You can learn all you want to know about him from that show. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/23 "2018-11-15T20:19:04Z")
Aaron Burr shot a Secretary of the Treasury in Weehawken just to watch him die. (He died a day later, though.) ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/24 "2018-11-15T20:24:26Z")
His name is ritually invoked every time we step out into a Minnesota winter. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/25 "2018-11-15T20:26:50Z")
You can call us Aaron Burr from the way we’re dropping Hamiltons. kenobi 65 already beat me to the difficulty saying his name when you are eating PB. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/26 "2018-11-15T21:04:08Z")
That he’s my 1st cousin, 7 times removed, and the son of a minister, also named Aaron. ---
**Author:** ![2Bits](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/e95f7d/32.png) [@2Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2Bits)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/27 "2018-11-15T22:38:46Z")
He founded the bank now known as JP Morgan Chase. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2018, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/28 "2018-11-15T23:53:29Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Aaron Burr shot a Secretary of the Treasury in Weehawken just to watch him die. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/29 "2018-11-16T01:04:02Z")
When I hear of Aaron Burr, I think of only one thing–[this commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss). ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/30 "2018-11-16T01:11:05Z")
I didn’t know this, but this thread forced me to read his wiki page. Apparently, when Burr’s second wife divorced him, she hired Alexander Hamilton Jr. to act as her lawyer. That’s just harsh. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/31 "2018-11-16T01:24:53Z")
I always get his story confused with Benedict Arnold’s. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/32 "2018-11-16T01:25:14Z")
He was VP under Jefferson. He killed Hamilton in a duel He was tried and acquitted for treason – I know the basic details, though there is some uncertainty about them. He’s a direct ancestor of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/33 "2018-11-16T01:28:20Z")
Selfish prick, mocked Alexander Hamilton for _not_ personally profiting from being secretary of the Treasury, shot Hamilton in a duel, stirred up a constitutional crisis that resulted in the twelfth amendment. ETA: was Jefferson’s VP ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/34 "2018-11-16T02:31:19Z")
Aaron Burr was Maria Reynolds’ lawyer when she divorced James Reynolds. Maria was the mistress of Alexander Hamilton. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/35 "2018-11-16T02:38:17Z")
Burr served in the Continental Army. He was on Washington’s staff. Survived the winter at Valley Forge. Fought at the Battle of Monmouth. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/36 "2018-11-16T06:15:09Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Played by a cute girl in _Drunk History_. Aubrey Plaza ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/37 "2018-11-16T09:07:23Z")
From heaven knows where – come across very long ago – I remember this jingle from the lifetime of this bod (about whom I otherwise know nothing beyond what is in this thread): “O little Burr’s wanted for murder, and little Burr’s wanted for treason; And they’ll hang him high on the gallows tree, no matter what the reason.” ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2018, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/38 "2018-11-16T15:30:27Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > When I hear of Aaron Burr, I think of only one thing–[this commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss). Same here, that commercial is the source of basically everything I know about Aaron Burr. (see post #18) ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/39 "2018-11-17T14:58:17Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > When I hear of Aaron Burr, I think of only one thing–[this commercial](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Gkqzxss8Ss). > [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](#): > > Same here, that commercial is the source of basically everything I know about Aaron Burr. (see post #18) I think of the [best parody commercial ever.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-KoAi3Nl9Q) ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2018, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566/40 "2018-11-17T17:14:03Z")
The place where he shot Hamilton is the site of small million dollar homes because of the view. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-you-know-about-aaron-burr/824566.md?page=1)