 | GenghisTheHun (168)
08/24/2005 | Dayton is more interesting after the Convention. Dayton met Aaron Burr in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and became involved in an infamous conspiracy in which Burr apparently intended to conquer parts of what is now the western United States and create an empire. An illness prevented Dayton from accompanying Burr's aborted 1806 expedition, but in 1807 Dayton was arrested for treason. He was released and never brought to trial but his national political career never recovered.
After resuming his political career in New Jersey, he died in 1824 in his hometown and was interred in a vault in St. John's Episcopal churchyard.
The city of Dayton, Ohio was named after him because he owned 250,000 acres of land in Ohio.
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