Barker Burnell

Barker Burnell (January 30, 1798 – June 15, 1843) was an American politician who was a U.S. representative from Massachusetts.

Burnell was born on January 30, 1798, in Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Burnell was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820–1821. He 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 served as delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1840. He 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.

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