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A Shot at Greatness

Hey, remember that time the Vice President shot a guy? No, not that one. The other one. From 1804. When VP Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton ...

veep-2.jpg Hey, remember that time the Vice President shot a guy?

No, not that one. The other one. From 1804. When VP Aaron Burr shot Alexander Hamilton in a duel.

It happened in Weehawken, N.J. And New Jersey State Senator Joseph Vitale wants to make sure you don't forget it. He's asking the U.S. Secretary of the Interior to designate Weehawken as the official site of the first time a sitting Vice President shot another man.

Emphasis, obviously, on "first."

Zach Patton -- Executive Editor. Zach joined GOVERNING as a staff writer in 2004. He received the 2011 Jesse H. Neal Award for Outstanding Journalism
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