Oh man oh man! I can't believe what I learned today!
Aaron Burr was Jonathan Edwards' grandson??!
What?!! Are you jiving me??
Nope.
Jonny Edwards, the Calvinist, Puritan, Monster Theologian?
He made the guy who made the guy who killed Alexander Hamilton?
Got it from the intro to this AMAZING book:
A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America's First Presidential Campaign by Edward J. Larson.
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That's kind of like when I learned this:
Genealogists have determined that FDR was distantly related to a total of 11 U.S. presidents, 5 by blood and 6 by marriage: Theodore Roosevelt, John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Ulysses Grant, William Henry Harrison, Benjamin Harrison, James Madison, William Taft, Zachary Taylor, Martin Van Buren, and George Washington.
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