Aaron Burr Jr. Aaron Burr Jr. 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 third president. The younger Aaron Burr was left an orphan when he was two years old, his father and mother (and both maternal grandparents) having died within a year. He did not respond well to the discipline of his austere uncle, Timothy Edwards, several times running away from home and att