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Barker Burnell (January 30, 1798 – June 15, 1843) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from
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Biography

Burnell was born on January 30, 1798, in
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. Burnell was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820–1821. He served as member of the
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in 1821–1822, and as a member of the
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in 1823, from 1825 to 1833, and in 1838. Burnell served as delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1840. He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1841, until his death in
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, June 15, 1843. He was interred in Congressional Cemetery. Burnell was re-interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery,
Nantucket, Massachusetts Nantucket () is an island in the state of Massachusetts in the United States, about south of the Cape Cod peninsula. Together with the small islands of Tuckernuck Island, Tuckernuck and Muskeget Island, Muskeget, it constitutes the Town and Co ...
, in 1844.


See also

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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) The following is a list of United States United States Senate, senators and United States House of Representatives, representatives who died of natural or accidental causes, or who killed themselves, while serving their terms between 1790 and 18 ...


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