Editing Aaron Burr (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Aaron Burr bust.jpg|thumb|Bust of Burr as [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]]]]
Although Burr is often remembered primarily for his duel with Hamilton, his establishment of guides and rules for the first impeachment trial set a high bar for behavior and procedures in the Senate chamber, many of which are followed today.<ref name=nycourts>{{Cite web|title=Aaron Burr|url=https://history.nycourts.gov/figure/aaron-burr|access-date=March 13, 2025|via=Historical Society of the Courts of New York}}</ref><ref name=csr>{{Cite web|title=Aaron Burr|url=https://constitutionallawreporter.com/great-american-biographies/aaron-burr|access-date=March 13, 2025|via=Constitutional Law Reporter}}</ref>

Historian [[Nancy Isenberg]], seeking to explain Burr's negative image in modern times, wrote that his portrayal as a villain is actually the result of a smear campaign invented by his political enemies centuries ago, and then disseminated in newspapers, pamphlets and personal letters during and after his lifetime. According to Isenberg, pop-cultural portraits of Burr have repeated these distortions, transforming him into the quintessential "bad guy" of early American history.<ref name=":3" /> Stuart Fisk Johnson describes Burr as [[progressivism|progressive]] thinker and doer, a brave military patriot and brilliant lawyer who helped establish some of the physical infrastructure and guiding legal principles which helped in the founding of America.<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Stuart Fisk |date=February 3, 2017 |title=Defending the honor of Aaron Burr |language=en-US |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/defending-the-honor-of-aaron-burr/2017/02/03/d61d54ca-e826-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html |access-date=June 2, 2022 |issn=0190-8286}}</ref>

A lasting consequence of Burr's role in the election of 1800 was the [[Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], which changed how vice presidents were chosen. As was evident from the 1800 election, the situation could quickly arise where the vice president, as the defeated presidential candidate, could not work well with the president. The Twelfth Amendment required that electoral votes be cast separately for president and vice president.{{sfn|Bailey|2007|p=196}}

Burr is also sometimes seen as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States,<ref name=battlefields/> although this characterization is unusual.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bomboy |first=Scott |date=June 15, 2020 |title=How Aaron Burr changed the Constitution |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/how-aaron-burr-changed-the-constitution |access-date= |website=[[National Constitution Center]] |language=en}}</ref>

===Representation in literature and popular culture===
[[File:Leslie Odom, Jr., in Hamilton costume, July 2015.jpg|thumb|[[Leslie Odom Jr.]] as Burr in ''[[Hamilton (musical)|Hamilton]]'']]
* [[Edward Everett Hale]]'s 1863 story "[[The Man Without a Country]]" is about a fictional co-conspirator of Burr's in the Southwest and Mexico, who is placed in internal exile (in the custody of the [[United States Navy]]) for his crimes.<ref name=Hale>{{cite book |last=Hale |first=Edward Everett |date=1889 |orig-year=1st pub. The Atlantic Monthly Dec. 1863 |title=The Man Without a Country: And Other Tales |url=https://archive.org/details/manwithoutcountr00haleuoft |location=Boston |publisher=Roberts Brothers }}</ref>
* [[Gore Vidal]]'s [[Burr (novel)|''Burr: A Novel'']] (1973) is part of his ''[[Narratives of Empire]]'' series.<ref name=Vidal>{{cite book |last=Vidal |first=Gore |date=2011 |orig-year=1st pub. 1973 |title=Burr: A Novel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xhwYjjgL6FcC |publisher=Knopf Doubleday |isbn=978-0307798411 }}</ref>
* [[PBS]]'s ''[[American Experience]]'' episode "The Duel" (2000) chronicled the events that led to the Burr–Hamilton duel.{{sfn|PBS|2000}}
* Burr is a principal character in the 2015 biographical musical [[Hamilton (musical)|''Hamilton'']], written by [[Lin-Manuel Miranda]] and inspired by historian [[Ron Chernow]]'s [[Alexander Hamilton (book)|2004 biography]] of Hamilton.<ref name=Wood>{{cite magazine |first=Gordon S. |last=Wood |title=Federalists on Broadway |magazine=New York Review of Books |date=January 14, 2016 |pages=10–13 |url=https://archive.org/stream/The_New_York_Review_of_Books_January_14_2016#page/n9/mode/2up }}</ref> [[Leslie Odom Jr.]] won the [[Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical]] for his portrayal of Aaron Burr on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Viagas|first1=Robert|title=''Hamilton'' Tops Tony Awards With 11 Wins|url=https://www.playbill.com/article/tony-time-its-broadways-biggest-night|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130021429/http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-time-its-broadways-biggest-night|archive-date=January 30, 2017|access-date=March 24, 2025|via=Playbill|date=June 12, 2016}}</ref> [[Giles Terera]] portrayed Aaron Burr in the [[West End theatre|West End]] production, winning the [[Laurence Olivier Awards|Laurence Olivier Award]] in the [[Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical|same category]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/mar/06/olivier-awards-2018-complete-list-of-nominations|title=Olivier awards 2018: complete list of nominations|author=Guardian Stage|date=March 6, 2018|website=The Guardian|access-date=March 24, 2025}}</ref>
* In the alternative history anthology'' [[Alternate Presidents]]'' (1992) by [[Mike Resnick]]. "The War of '07" by [[Jayge Carr]],  Aaron Burr is elected the third president in [[1800 United States presidential election|1800]] against [[Thomas Jefferson]], establishes an alliance with [[Napoleon Bonaparte]], and creates a family dictatorship. Aaron Burr serves as president for nine terms until his death on September 14, 1836. His grandson and final vice president Aaron Burr Alston becomes the fourth president of the United States.