page_title: Aaron Burr
section_title: Later life and death
hierarchical_section_title: Aaron Burr / Life / Later life and death
caption_attribution_description: English: St. James Hotel, Port Richmond, Staten Island, New York, in the 19th century. (Staten Island Historical Society)
context_page_description: Aaron Burr Jr. was an American politician and lawyer. A Founding Father, he served as the third vice president of the United States during President Thomas Jefferson's first term from 1801 to 1805. His role in helping form the nation, however, would be overshadowed when he killed fellow Founding Father Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel and when charges of treason were brought against him in 1807.
  Burr was born to a prominent family in New Jersey, he served as a Continental Army officer in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 until his resignation in 1779. Burr then returned to his law career in New York City and became a leading politician who helped form the new Jeffersonian Republican Party. He served in the U.S. Senate and was Jefferson's vice-presidential candidate on the 1800 Jeffersonian Republican ticket. An electoral college tie between Jefferson and Burr resulted in the House of Representatives deciding in Jefferson's favor. Although Burr maintained that he supported Jefferson, the president was highly suspicious of Burr. Vice President Burr was sidelined by Jefferson.
context_section_description: Despite financial setbacks, Burr lived out the remainder of his life in New York in relative peace, until 1833, when his second marriage failed after four months, soon followed by medical difficulties.
  On July 1, 1833, at age 77, Burr married Eliza Jumel, a wealthy widow who was 19 years younger. They lived together briefly at her residence which she had acquired with her first husband, the Morris-Jumel Mansion in the Washington Heights neighborhood in Manhattan. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it is now preserved and open to the public.
  Soon after the marriage, she realized her fortune was dwindling due to Burr's land speculation losses. She separated from Burr after four months of marriage. For her divorce lawyer, she chose Alexander Hamilton Jr., and the divorce was officially completed on September 14, 1836, coincidentally the day of Burr's death.
  Burr suffered a debilitating stroke in 1834, which rendered him immobile. In 1836, Burr died on Staten Island in the village of Port Richmond, in a boardinghouse that later became known as the St. James Hotel. He was buried near his father in Princeton, New Jersey.
caption: St. James Hotel, Burr's final home and place of death, in a late 19th-century photograph (Staten Island Historical Society)
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