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When former vice president Aaron Burr was getting divorced in 1836, his wife chose Alexander Hamilton Jr, son of the man Burr had famously killed in a duel 30 years earlier, as her divorce attorney. Was this as much of a "screw you" as it seems?

by /u/g2petter in /r/AskHistorians

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