| Outraged over disparaging remarks that Alexander Hamilton had allegedly made at a dinner party, Aaron Burr challenged his longtime rival to a duel, and on this day he fatally shot Hamilton on the heights of Weehawken, New Jersey. In 1800, Burr, the Republican candidate for vice president, had compelled Hamilton to acknowledge his authorship of The Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States, a personal attack Hamilton had circulated privately, thereby ... |