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Aron Burr
Title: Aron Burr
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 3406 | Pages: 14.5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Aron Burr
Aaron Burr Jr. was thought to be one of the most brilliant students graduated from Princeton in the eighteenth century. Woodrow Wilson said he had “genius enough to have made him immortal, and unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous.” His father was Princeton's second president; his maternal grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, was Princeton's third president. The younger Aaron Burr was left an orphan when he was two years old, his father and mother (and …showed first 75 words of 3406 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3406 total…isolation was now even more apparent. But courageously he went about his duties. He conducted himself before the Senate as though nothing had happened. It is recorded by some of his associates that he never appeared to better advantage. The last matter to come before the Senate was the impeachment of Justice Chase. This attack on the Federal judiciary was instigated by Jefferson and pressed to a conclusion and lost, Burr casting the deciding vote.
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