by Geoff Cobb 
With all of the praise surrounding Lin-Manuel Miranda’s extraordinary musical, “Hamilton,” it is not surprising that the man who killed him, the villain Aaron Burr, has also enjoyed something of a revival. If you even half paid attention in American history, then you probably know that Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel, his shot ending Hamilton’s brilliant career. Burr and Hamilton rowed across the Hudson River to Weehawken, New…
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Interesting stuff, another fact that many people don’t know about Burr is that he was a died in the wool traitor and only got off on a technicality. I read that someplace awhile ago.
He was ready to sell out the USA with some other guy and was tried and although they was enough evidence on that instance, the Constitution states you have to have two instances of betraying your country to be convicted.