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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriDavid BARTON
(1783-1837)
Senate Years of Service:
1821-1831Party: Democratic Republican;
Adams-Clay Republican; Adams Democrat; Anti-JacksonianBARTON, David, a Senator
from Missouri; born near Greeneville, N.C. (now Tennessee),
December 14, 1783; read law; admitted to the Tennessee bar; moved
to the Territory of Missouri in 1809; elected attorney general of
the Territory in 1813; first circuit judge of Howard County in 1815
and presiding judge in 1816; member, Territorial house of
representatives 1818 and served as speaker; member and president of
the convention which formed the State constitution in 1820; upon
the admission of Missouri as a State into the Union was elected as
a Democratic Republican (later Adams-Clay Republican) to the United
States Senate; reelected in 1825 as an Adams Democrat and served
from August 10, 1821, to March 3, 1831; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection as an Anti-Jacksonian in 1830; chairman, Committee on
Public Lands (Eighteenth through Twenty-first Congresses); member,
State senate 1834-1835; died in Boonville, Mo., on September 28,
1837; interment in Walnut Grove Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Shoemaker, Floyd C.
‘David Barton, John Rice Jones, and Edward Bates: Three
Missouri State and Statehood Founders.’ Missouri
Historical Review 65 (July 1971): 527-43; Van Ravensway,
Charles. ‘The Tragedy of David Barton.’ Missouri
Historical Society Bulletin 7 (October 1950): 35-56.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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