Answer: Aaron Burr
On February 19, 1807, Burr was arrested in what is now Alabama.
Burr (1756-1836), the third vice president of the United States from 1801-1805 under President Thomas Jefferson, had famously killed political rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. (He was never charged in that case.) He was arrested in what is now Alabama in 1807, accused of plotting to split the nation or planning to invade Spanish territories.
A few weeks before Burr was arrested, Thomas Jefferson had addressed Congress on the “Burr Conspiracy.”
Burr was acquitted in what was then the “Trial of the Century.”
The complete story of Burr’s arrest, trial and life is the opening chapter in A NATION RISING.
Posted on February 15, 2015
