Aaron Burr
Burr served with distinction in the Continental Army at the battles of Quebec, Monmouth, and New Haven. He is best remembered for taking the life of Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel. After conspiring with General James Wilkinson to create a new republic in the Southwest, he was arrested in 1807, tried for treason, and acquitted. He went abroad in 1808 and tried but failed to interest the English and French in his schemes. In 1812, he returned to the U.S. and resumed his law practice.
He soon suffered the loss of his only grandson, followed by the drowning of his brilliant and adored daughter, Theodosia. At the age of 78, Burr married, then divorced, a wealthy French widow. He died in 1836.
Information courtesy of Early American History Auctions February 2003