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Aaron Burr

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U.S. Vice President

The Resume

    (February 6, 1756-September 14, 1836)
    Fought in the Revolutionary War under Benedict Arnold, George Washington and Israel Putnam
    Started a practice with Alexander Hamilton in New York (1783)
    Made Attorney General by New York Governor George Clinton (1789)
    New York Senator (1791-1797)
    Member of the New York state legislature (1797-1799)
    Organized the Democratic Party in New York City
    Elected Vice President with Thomas Jefferson as President (1800)
    Ran for Governor of New York and lost
    Shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel (July 11, 1804)

Why he might be annoying:

    He applied to Princeton when he was 11 years old.
    He converted the Tammany Society (later known as Tammany Hall) from a social club into a Democratic political machine which would dominate New York City for years to come.
    He tied with Jefferson with 73 electoral votes, and lost in the election after a long drawn out battle in the House of Representatives.
    As a result, he was alienated from Jefferson and most of his administration, and considered an outsider as vice president.
    He ran for the governorship of New York, where Alexander Hamilton, gaining more ground in the political machine, made insulting comments about him and generally secured his defeat.
    He then challenged Hamilton to a duel, where he fatally shot Hamilton in the chest.
    He spent the remainder of his life running from the law.
    He organized a small militia and planned on making a massive new nation in the west, forged from conquered provinces of Mexico.
    He turned himself in at the Orleans Territory but then jumped bail and fled to Spanish Florida (January 10, 1807).
    He was divorced by his wife on the day he died.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He put his studies at Princeton University on hold to enlist with the rebels in the Revolutionary War.
    His duel with Hamilton observed the rules of dueling, and he was primarily targeted for political reasons.
    He became a leading war officer in the Revolutionary War at the age of 21.
    He was intercepted going to Florida in Alabama, where he was extradited to Virginia for a court hearing.
    He was acquitted on charges of treason in his trial.
    Woodrow Wilson said of him: 'He had genius enough to have made him immortal, and unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous.'
    He was buried with full military honors.

Credit: Captain Howdy


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 92 Votes: 57.61% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 11 Votes: 90.91% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 14 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 40 Votes: 57.50% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 24 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 21 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 46 Votes: 34.78% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 16 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 30 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 78 Votes: 35.90% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 155 Votes: 34.19% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 376 Votes: 44.41% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 695 Votes: 41.01% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 1120 Votes: 42.23% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 654 Votes: 41.90% Annoying