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May 31, 2017 · Updated: June 1, 2023 | Original: May 31, 2017. copy page link. Print Page. In the summer of 1807, the city of Richmond, Virginia, played host to one of the most remarkable trials in early...
Sep 1, 2023 · It was on this day in 1807 that former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of treason charges. The trial was truly a “Trial of the Century” in its time and one of the first tests of the Constitution’s Treason Clause. The clause reads as follows in Article III, Section 3, of the Constitution:
Mar 17, 2017 · Although he saw this request as an affront to his administration, Jefferson nevertheless complied on January 22, 1807, this time identifying Burr by name and stating that he was an...
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It was before Chief Justice Marshall that Aaron Burr, late Vice-President of the United States, was tried in the Circuit Court of the United States held in Richmond, Virginia, at the spring term of 1807. Burr was indicted for the crime of high treason, in levying war against the United States, and for a misdemeanor in preparing a military ...
The trial of Aaron Burr for treason in 1807 has few rivals in American history for dramatic appeal and for its colorful cast of char acters. The accused traitor had been Vice President during the fi rst administration of Thomas Jefferson. In the summer of 1804, Burr killed his rival Alexander Hamilton in a duel, an event that effectively
Burr was taken to Fort Stoddart for two weeks, then conducted by a nine-man military guard on a one-thousand mile horseback trip to Richmond, where he would stand trial for treason. The Trial. On March 26, 1807, Burr arrived in Richmond, Virginia and lodged, under guard, in the Eagle Hotel.
