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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsBarker BURNELL
(1798-1843)
BURNELL, Barker, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Nantucket, Mass.,
January 30, 1798; member of the State house of representatives in
1819; member of the Massachusetts Constitutional convention in
1820; served in the State senate in 1824 and 1825; delegate to the
Whig National Convention in 1840; elected as a Whig to the
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from March
4, 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., June 15, 1843;
interment in Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in Prospect Hill
Cemetery, Nantucket, Mass., in 1844.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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