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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New HampshireRobert BURNS
(1792-1866)
BURNS, Robert, a
Representative from New Hampshire; born in Hudson, Hillsboro
County, N.H., December 12, 1792; moved with his parents in
childhood to Rumney, Grafton County; studied medicine in Warren;
taught school; attended Dartmouth Medical School in 1815; returned
to Warren and commenced the practice of medicine; moved to Hebron,
Grafton County, in 1818 and continued the practice of his
profession until 1835; fellow of the New Hampshire Medical Society
in 1824; member of the State senate in 1831; elected as a
Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March
4, 1833-March 3, 1837); continued the practice of medicine in
Plymouth, N.H., until his death June 26, 1866; interment in the
churchyard of Trinity Church, Holderness, Grafton County, N.H.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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