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Hamilton's open hostility, however, first showed itself when Burr, then but thirty-five years of age, defeated Hamilton's father-in-law, Philip Schuyler, for the United States Senate.
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Beveridge highlights a significant moment in the political rivalry between Hamilton and Burr.
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