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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaBASSETT, Burwell
(1764—1841)
BASSETT, Burwell, a Representative from Virginia; born in New Kent County, Va., March 18, 1764; attended the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va.; member of the State house of delegates 1787-1789; served in the State senate 1794-1805; unsuccessfully contested the election of John Clopton to the Fourth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1813); chairman, Committee on Claims (Twelfth Congress), Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Twelfth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812 to the Thirteenth Congress; elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1819); again a member of the State house of delegates 1819-1821; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, as a Crawford Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; died in New Kent County, Va., February 26, 1841.
Lancaster, Joseph. Letters on national subjects, auxiliary to universal education, and scientific knowledge; addressed to Burwell Bassett, late a member of the House of Representatives, and James Monroe, president of the United States of America
. Washington city: Printed for the author by Jacob Gideon, junior, Ninth street, near Pennsylvania avenue. Sold by Clement T. Coote, Pennsylvania avenue. 1820.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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