Part one of term paper
was thought to be one of the most brilliant students graduated from Princeton in the eighteenth century. Woodrow Wilson said he had “genius enough to have made him immortal, and unschooled passion enough to have made him infamous.” His father was Princeton's second president; his maternal grandfather, Jonathan Edwards, was Princeton's t ...

Part two of term paper
... class at Princeton at the age of thirteen and graduated with distinction at sixteen in 1772, a year after James Madison and Philip Freneau. He was a member of the Cliosophic Society and for his Commencement Oration chose the prophetic topic `On Castle Building.'' Burr studied theology for a while and then law. After the Revolutionary War, in which he served with distinction as a field officer, he took up the practice of law in New York City and entered politics, serving as a member of the N ...