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Aaron Burr Jr. and John Pierre Burr: A Founding Father and his Abolitionist Son

by Sherri Burr | Colonial & Early National (1746-1820), Antebellum (1820-1861)

Aaron Burr Jr. (Class of 1772), the third Vice President of the United States, fathered two children by a woman of color from Calcutta, India. Their son, John Pierre Burr (1792-1864), would become an activist, abolitionist, and conductor on the Underground Railroad.

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