Barker Burnell | |
Office1: | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1841 |
Term End1: | June 15, 1843 |
Predecessor1: | John Reed Jr. |
Successor1: | Joseph Grinnell |
Constituency1: | 11th district (1841–1843) 10th district (1843) |
Office2: | Member of the Massachusetts Senate Nantucket and Dukes County District |
Term Start2: | 1823 |
Term End2: | 1823 |
Preceded2: | Walter Folger, Jr. |
Succeeded2: | Jethro Mitchell |
Term Start3: | 1825 |
Term End3: | 1833 |
Preceded3: | Jethro Mitchell |
Succeeded3: | David Joy |
Term Start4: | 1838 |
Term End4: | 1838 |
Preceded4: | David Joy |
Succeeded4: | George Bruce Upton |
Office5: | Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives |
Term5: | 1821–1822 |
Birth Date: | January 30, 1798 |
Birth Place: | Nantucket, Massachusetts |
Death Date: | June 15, 1843 (aged 45) |
Death Place: | Washington, D.C. |
Restingplace: | Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts |
Party: | Whig |
Barker Burnell (January 30, 1798 – June 15, 1843) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Burnell was born on January 30, 1798, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Burnell served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1821–1822, and as a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1823, from 1825 to 1833, and in 1838.
Burnell was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention of 1820.
Burnell served as delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1840.
Burnell was 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.
He was interred in Congressional Cemetery. Burnell was re-interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1844.