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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaWilliam BARNETT
(1761-1832)
BARNETT, William, a
Representative from Georgia; born in Amherst County, Va., March 4,
1761; moved to Georgia with his father, who settled in Columbia
County; at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War returned to
Virginia with his brother and joined a military company from
Amherst County under the leadership of the Marquis de Lafayette and
was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown; returned to
Georgia at the close of the war and settled on Broad River, Elbert
County; sheriff of Elbert County for several years; member of the
State senate and served as pesident of that body; elected as a
Republican to the Twelfth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Howell Cobb; reelected to the Thirteenth
Congress and served from October 5, 1812, to March 3, 1815;
appointed commissioner to establish the boundaries of the Creek
Indian Reservation in 1815; moved to Montgomery County, Ala., and
engaged in planting; died in Montgomery County, Ala., April 1832;
interment in the Gilmer-Christian-Barnett Cemetery, near Mathews
Station, Montgomery County, Ala.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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