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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyWilliam Norton SHINN
(1782-1871)
SHINN, William Norton, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Burlington County, N.J.,
October 24, 1782; attended the public schools; engaged in
agricultural pursuits; sheriff of Burlington County 1825-1828;
member of the State general assembly in 1828; served in the State
council 1829-1831; chairman of the Democratic State central
committee in 1832; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); resumed
agricultural pursuits; president of the Burlington Agricultural
Association in 1853 and 1854; elected a director of the Camden
& Amboy Railroad Co.; died in Mount Holly, Burlington County,
N.J., on August 18, 1871; interment in Mount Holly Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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