User:Jonas1015119/sandbox/List of people shot by vice presidents of the United States

In the history of the United States, a total of two people have been shot by sitting vice presidents of the United States. Additionally, in 1912, a 12-year old Adlai Stevenson II, who would go on to become the Democratic nominee for president in the 1952 and 1956 presidential elections, accidentally shot and killed a friend.

Alexander Hamilton
On the morning of July 11, 1804, a duel took place in Weehawken, New Jersey, between Aaron Burr, the Vice President of the United States, and Alexander Hamilton, the first and former Secretary of the Treasury. The duel was the culmination of a bitter rivalry that had developed between both men who had become high-profile politicians in postcolonial America. In the duel Burr fatally shot Hamilton, while Hamilton fired into a tree branch above and behind Burr's head. Hamilton was taken back across the Hudson River and died the following day in New York.

The death of Hamilton led to the permanent weakening of the Federalist Party and its demise in American domestic politics. It also effectively ended the political career of Burr, who was vilified for shooting Hamilton; he never held another high office after his tenure of vice president ended in 1805.

Harry Whittington
On February 11, 2006, then-United States vice president Dick Cheney shot Harry Whittington, a then-78-year-old Texas attorney, with a 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun (S/N: 115288) while participating in a quail hunt on a ranch in Riviera, Texas. Both Cheney and Whittington called the incident an accident.