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See also:BURR, See also:AARON (1756-1836) , See also:American See also:political See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Newark, New See also:Jersey, on the 6th of See also:February 1756. His See also:father, the Rev. Aaron Burr (1715-1757), was the second See also:president (1748–1757) of the See also:College of New Jersey, now See also:Princeton University; his See also:mother was the daughter of See also:Jonathan See also:- EDWARDS, AMELIA ANN BLANDFORD (1831-1892)
- EDWARDS, BELA BATES (18o2-1852)
- EDWARDS, BRYAN (1743–1800)
- EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)
- EDWARDS, HENRY THOMAS (1837–1884)
- EDWARDS, JONATHAN (1703—1758)
- EDWARDS, LEWIS (1806–1887 )
- EDWARDS, RICHARD (c. 1523–1566)
- EDWARDS, T
- EDWARDS, THOMAS CHARLES (1837–1900)
Edwards, the well-known Calvinist theologian. The son graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1772, and two years later began the study of See also:law in the celebrated law school conducted by his See also:brother-in-law, Tappan See also:Reeve, at See also:Litchfield, See also:Connecticut. Soon after the outbreak of the See also:War of See also:Independence, in 1775, he joined See also:Washington's See also:army in See also:Cambridge, See also:Mass. He accompanied Amold's expedition into See also:Canada in 1775, and on arriving before See also:Quebec he disguised himself as a See also:Catholic See also:priest and made a dangerous See also:journey of 120 M. through the See also:British lines to notify See also:Montgomery, at See also:Montreal, of See also:Arnold's arrival. He served for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time on the staffs of Washington and See also:Putnam in 1776-77, and by his vigilance in the See also:retreat from See also:Long See also:Island he saved an entire See also:brigade from See also:capture. On becoming See also:lieutenant-See also:colonel in See also:July 1777, he assumed the command of a See also:regiment, and during the See also:winter at Valley Forge guarded the " Gulf," a pass commanding the approach to the See also:camp, and necessarily the first point that would be attacked. In the engagement at See also:Monmouth, on the 28th of See also:June 1778, he commanded one of the brigades in See also:Lord See also:Stirling's See also:division. In See also:January 1779 Burr was assigned to the command of the " lines " of Westchester See also:county, a region between the British See also:post at See also:Kingsbridge and that of the Americans about 15 M. to the See also:north. In this See also:district there was much turbulence and plundering by the lawless elements of both Whigs and Tories and by bands of See also:ill-disciplined soldiers from both armies. Burr established a thorough See also:patrol See also:system, rigorously enforced See also:martial law, and quickly restored See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order.
He resigned from the army in See also:March 1779, on See also:account of ill-See also:health, renewed the study of law, was admitted to the See also:bar at See also:Albany in 1782, and began to practise in New See also:York See also:city after its evacuation by the British in the following See also:year. In 1782 he married See also:Theodosia See also:Prevost (d. 1794), the widow of a British army officer who had died in the See also:West Indies during the War of Independence. They had one See also:child, a daughter, Theodosia, born in 1783, who became widely known for her beauty and accomplishments, married See also:Joseph See also:Alston of See also:South Carolina
in 18or, and was lost at See also:sea in 1813. Burr was a member of the See also:state See also:assembly (1784–1785), See also:attorney-See also:general of the state (1789-1791), See also:United States senator (1791–1797), and again a member of the assembly (1798–1799 and 1800-18o1). As See also:national parties became clearly defined, he associated himself with the Democratic-Republicans. Although he was not the founder of Tammany See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, he began the construction of the political See also:machine upon which the See also:power of that organization is based. In the See also:election of 1800 he was placed on the Democratic-Republican presidential See also:ticket with See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Jefferson, and each received the same number of electoral votes. It was well understood that the party intended that Jefferson should be president and Burr See also:vice-president, but owing to a defect (later remedied) in the Constitution the responsibility for the final choice was thrown upon the See also:House of Representatives. The attempts of a powerful See also:faction among the Federalists to secure the election of Burr failed, partly because of the opposition of See also:Alexander See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton and partly, it would seem, because Burr himself would make no efforts to obtain votes in his own favour. On Jefferson's election, Burr of course became vice-president. His See also:fair and judicial manner as president of the See also:Senate, recognized even by his bitterest enemies, helped to See also:foster traditions in regard to that position quite different from those which have become associated with the speakership of the House of Representatives.
Hamilton had opposed Burr's aspirations for the vice-See also:presidency in 1792, and had exerted See also:influence through Washington to prevent his See also:appointment as brigadier-general in 1798, at the time of the threatened war between the United States and See also:France. It was also in a measure his efforts which led to Burr's lack of success in the New York gubernatorial See also:campaign of 1804; moreover the two had long been rivals at the bar. Smarting under defeat and angered by Hamilton's criticisms, Burr sent the See also:challenge which resulted in the famous See also:duel at See also:Weehawken, N.J., on the 11th of July 1804, and the See also:death of Hamilton (q.v.) on the following See also:day. After the expiration of his See also:term as vice-president (March 4, 1805), broken in See also:fortune and virtually an See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile from New Ybrk, where, as in New Jersey, he had been indicted for See also:murder after the duel with Hamilton, Burr visited the South-west and became involved in the so-called See also:conspiracy which has so puzzled the students of that See also:period. The traditional view that he planned a separation of the West from the See also:Union is now discredited. Apart from the question of political morality he could not, as a shrewd politician, have failed to see that the See also:people of that See also:section were too loyal to See also:sanction such a See also:- SCHEME (Lat. schema, Gr. oxfjya, figure, form, from the root axe, seen in exeiv, to have, hold, to be of such shape, form, &c.)
scheme. The See also:objects of his treasonable See also:correspondence with Merry and Yrujo, the British and See also:Spanish ministers at Washington, were, it would seem, to secure See also:money and to conceal his real designs, which were probably to overthrow Spanish power in the South-west, and perhaps to found an imperial See also:dynasty in See also:Mexico. He was arrested in 1807 on the See also:charge of See also:treason, was brought to trial before the United States See also:circuit See also:court at See also:Richmond, See also:Virginia, See also:Chief-See also:Justice See also:Marshall presiding, and he was acquitted, in spite of the fact that the political influence of the national See also:administration was thrown against him. Immediately afterward he was tried on a charge of See also:misdemeanour, and on a technicality was again acquitted. He lived abroad from 18o8 to 1812, passing most of his time in See also:England, See also:Scotland, See also:Denmark, See also:Sweden and France; trying to secure aid in the See also:prosecution of his filibustering schemes but See also:- MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)
meeting with numerous rebuffs, being ordered out of England and See also:Napoleon refusing to receive him. In 1812 he returned to New York and spent the See also:remainder of his See also:life in the practice of law. Burr was unscrupulous, insincere and notoriously immoral, but he was pleasing in his See also:manners, generous to a See also:fault, and was intensely devoted to his wife and daughter. In 1833 he married Eliza B. Jumel (1769–1865), a See also:rich New York widow; the two soon separated, however, owing to Burr's having lost much of her fortune in See also:speculation. He died at See also:Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York, on the 14th of See also:September 1836.
The See also:standard See also:biography is See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Parton's The Life and Times of Aaron Burr (first edition, 1857; enlarged edition, 2 vols., Bostonand New York, 1898). W. F. McCaleb's The Aaron Burr Conspiracy (New York, 1903) is a scholarly See also:defence of the West and incidentally of Burr against the charge of treason, and is the best account of the subject; see also I. Jenkinson, Aaron Burr (Richmond, Ind., 1902). For the traditional view of Burr's conspiracy, see See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:- ADAMS
- ADAMS, ANDREW LEITH (1827-1882)
- ADAMS, CHARLES FRANCIS (1807-1886)
- ADAMS, HENRY (1838— )
- ADAMS, HENRY CARTER (1852— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT (i858— )
- ADAMS, HERBERT BAXTER (1850—1901)
- ADAMS, JOHN (1735–1826)
- ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY (1767-1848)
- ADAMS, SAMUEL (1722-1803)
- ADAMS, THOMAS (d. c. 1655)
- ADAMS, WILLIAM (d. 162o)
Adams's See also:History of the United States, vol. iii. (New York, 1890).
End of Article: BURR, AARON (1756-1836)
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