Question: What U.S. vice president is believed to have plotted an invasion of Spanish Texas?
Answer: Aaron Burr. After leaving office at the end of President Thomas Jefferson’s first term, he purchased a plot of land in Louisiana, where he intended to establish a colony as a base for invading Mexico.
Burr allegedly conspired with British and Spanish authorities to seize control of the Mississippi Valley, but he was twice cleared on wrongdoing. In 1808, Burr was arrested when his party of colonists departed Nashville for New Orleans. He was acquitted of treason but convicted of plotting an invasion of Spanish Territory. Burr remained interested in Texas colonization and the Texas Revolution until his death in 1836.
