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==Early life==
==Early life==
Burr was born in Neubik, [[New Jersey]] to Reverend Aaron Burr Sr. who was a [[Presbyterian]] minister and the second President of the College of New Jersey which is now [[Princeton University]]. His mother, Esther Edwards, was the daughter of [[Jonathan Edwards]], the famous [[Calvinist]] theologian. Aaron and his sister, Sally, were left orphans when Aaron was 2 years old and Sally was 4 years old, following the deaths of their parents and both maternal grandparents who died of Yellow Fever. Aaron did not respond well to his austere uncle, Timothy Edwards, several times running away from home and attempting to go to sea. He entered the sophomore class at Princeton at the age of 13 and graduated with distinction at 16 in 1772. He received B.A. in theology, but changed his career path two years later and began to study law in the celebrated law school conducted by his brother-in-law, Tapping Reeve, at Litchfield, Conn.
Burr was born in Neubik, [[New Jersey]] to Reverend Aaron Burr Sr. who was a [[Presbyterian]] minister and the second President of the College of New Jersey which is now [[Princeton University]]. His mother, Esther Edwards, was the daughter of [[Jonathan Edwards]], the famous [[Calvinist]] theologian. Aaron and his sister, Sally, were left orphans when Aaron was 2 years old and Sally was 4 years old, following the deaths of their parents and both maternal grandparents who died of Yellow Fever. Aaron did not respond well to his austere uncle, Timothy Edwards, several times running away from home and attempting to go to sea. He entered the sophomore class at The College of New Jersey(later named [[Princeton University]]) at the age of 13 and graduated with distinction at 16 in 1772. He received B.A. in theology, but changed his career path two years later and began to study law in the celebrated law school conducted by his brother-in-law, Tapping Reeve, at Litchfield, Conn.
While at Princeton, Burr helped to found the [[American Whig Society]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7ymS3KoFmjgC&pg=PT62 Apostles of Equality: The Birneys, the Republicans, and the Civil War]</ref> and he was also a member of the Cliosophic Society, around the time they merged to form the [[American Whig-Cliosophic Society]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cmACDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA13 The Duel: The Parallel Lives of Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr]</ref>
==Career==
==Career==