![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The contemporary story of political intrigue occurs from 1833 to 1840, in the time of Jacksonian democracy, years after the treason trial. ![]() President, and, by procedural default, named Burr as the U.S. To break the tied electoral vote, the House of Representatives-dominated by Alexander Hamilton-voted thirty-six times, until they elected Jefferson as the U.S. The enmities were established, when, despite Burr's initial victory in the voting, the presidential election of 1800 was a tied vote in the Electoral College, between him and Thomas Jefferson. Vice President, 1801–05 (John Vanderlyn, 1802)īurr (1973) portrays the eponymous anti-hero as a fascinating and honorable gentleman, and portrays his contemporary opponents as mortal men thus, George Washington is an incompetent military officer, a general who lost most of his battles Thomas Jefferson is a fey, especially dark and pedantic hypocrite who schemed and bribed witnesses in support of a false charge of treason against Burr, to whom he almost lost the presidency in the 1800 United States presidential election and Alexander Hamilton is a bastard-born, over-ambitious opportunist whose rise in high politics was by General Washington's hand, until being fatally wounded in the Burr–Hamilton duel (July 11, 1804). ![]()
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