Note: This is just one of
1,164
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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William Burnet (1730-1791) —
of New Jersey.
Born in Elizabethtown, Essex County (now Elizabeth, Union
County), N.J., December
13, 1730.
Physician;
served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; Delegate
to Continental Congress from New Jersey, 1780; county judge in
New Jersey, 1785.
Died in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., October
7, 1791 (age 60 years, 298
days).
Interment at First
Presbyterian Churchyard, Newark, N.J.
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Jacob Burnet (1770-1853) —
of Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., February
22, 1770.
Whig. Member of Ohio
state house of representatives, 1814-15; justice of
Ohio state supreme court, 1821-28; U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1828-31; delegate to Whig National Convention
from Ohio, 1839 (Convention Vice-President; member, Balloting
Committee; member, Committee to Notify Nominees; speaker).
Died in Cincinnati, Hamilton
County, Ohio, May 10,
1853 (age 83 years, 77
days).
Interment at Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
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David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) —
also known as David G. Burnet —
of Texas.
Born in Newark, Essex
County, N.J., April
14, 1788.
U.S. Consul in Galveston, 1832-35; delegate
to Texas Convention of 1833 from District of Liberty, 1833; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Liberty, 1835; President
of the Texas Republic, 1836; Vice
President of the Texas Republic, 1838-41; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1839, 1839-40.
Member, Freemasons.
Died December
5, 1870 (age 82 years, 235
days).
Original interment and cenotaph at Lakeview
Cemetery, Galveston, Tex.; reinterment to unknown location.
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