William Barnett

William Barnett (born March 4, 1761 in Amherst County , Colony of Virginia , † April 1832 in Montgomery County , Alabama ) was an American politician . Between 1812 and 1815 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, William Barnett came to Georgia with his father, where the family settled in Columbia County . After the outbreak of the Revolutionary War , he returned to Virginia with his brother, despite his youth, to participate in the war in a unit from Amherst County. Barnett was present at the decisive surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown . After the war, Barnett settled on the Broad River in Elbert County , Georgia. For several years he was the sheriff in that district.

Politically, Barnett joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by President Thomas Jefferson . He became a member and president of the Georgia Senate . After the resignation of Congressman Howell Cobb , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due state-wide by-election for the first seat of Georgia , where he took up his new mandate on October 5, 1812. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1815 . During this time the British-American War fell .

After his retirement from the US House of Representatives, Barnett was a member of the commission that determined the boundaries of the Creek Indian Reservation in 1815 . He later moved to Montgomery County, Alabama, where he worked as a planter . He died there in April 1832.

Web links

• William Barnett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• William Barnett in the database of Find a Grave (English)