Aaron Burr

September 12, 2007 - 8:06pm

Jersey stuck with Burr

By Max Pizarro, PolitickerNJ.com Reporter

Hudson County politics has always been a rough sport: Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton thereArguably one of the most infamous politicians of all-time, who ducked Jersey for years to avoid a Bergen County* murder charge, Newark native and Vice President Aaron Burr at least wasn’t a double-dipper.

But he can’t be called a New Jersey politician either, the old purists say. Though he was born and educated here, and he’s even buried in Princeton, he rose out of the New York political culture, and crossed the river on at least one historic occasion only to make use of the gentleman’s dueling range at Weehawken and mortally wound Alexander Hamilton.

"He came to Jersey to do his dastardly deed," said Prof. David Rebovich, managing director of the Rider University Institute for New Jersey Politics, conceding that Jersey can’t catch a break even if it can’t claim the political mantle of the infamous Burr.

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