Tapping Reeve House & Law School takes visitors on a journey through the life of a real student from the early 19th century. Through role-playing, hands-on areas, and interpretive exhibits, each visitor explores timeless issues of travel, communication, education, and community. With almost 1,000 students attending from every region of post-Revolutionary America, the Litchfield Law School launched the careers of many well-known Americans including two vice-presidents, 101 United States congressmen, twenty-eight United States senators, six cabinet members, three justices of the United States supreme court, fourteen governors and thirteen chief justices of state supreme courts. Many more graduates held state and local political office, while others became leaders of the nation's emerging corporate, mercantile, industrial and financial establishments. More than twenty alumni of the school were the founders or early professors of new law schools. The Litchfield Law School’s first and most notorious student was Aaron Burr, brother-in-law of the school’s founder, Tapping Reeve.