The Burrs and Alstons
- Aaron Burr (1756–1836), New York Assemblyman 1784-1785 1798-1801, Attorney General of New York 1789-1791, U.S. Senator from New York 1791-1797, Vice President of the United States 1801-1805. Father-in-law of Joseph Alston.
- Joseph Alston (1779–1816), Governor of South Carolina 1812-1814. Son-in-law of Aaron Burr.
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- Richard Burr, U.S. Senator from North Carolina, 2005–present. Twelfth cousin of Aaron Burr.
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- Joseph Alston (1779–1816), Governor of South Carolina 1812-1814. Son-in-law of Aaron Burr.
NOTE: Aaron Burr was also nephew of Continental Congressional Delegate Pierpont Edwards and first cousin of U.S. Representative Theodore Dwight and U.S. Senator Henry W. Edwards. Joseph Alston was also brother-in-law of South Carolina Governor John Lyde Wilson.
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“Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspect they differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.”
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