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Death of Aaron Burr
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September 14, 1836

Former Vice President and U.S. Senator from New York Aaron Burr has died at the village of Port Richmond, Staten Island, after suffering from the debilitating effects of a stroke for nearly two years. He was 80 years old.

Burr is best remembered for his duel with Alexander Hamilton in 1804, in which he shot and killed the former Secretary of the Treasury, as well as for his alleged conspiracy with planters and army officers to create an independent nation in the center of North America. Upon hearing of Burr's death, Massachusetts statesman John Quincy Adams is said to have remarked, "Burr's life, take it all together, was such as in any country of sound morals his friends would be desirous of burying in quiet oblivion."

Burr will be interred in New Jersey's Princeton Cemetery near his father and grandfather.
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