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Title	H.C. Burnett.
Creator	Levin, H. (editor)
Contributors	Lewis Publishing Company (publisher)
Description	Henry C. Burnett was born in the county of Essex, Virginia, in 1825. Shortly after his admission to the bar, he was in 1851 elected clerk of the Circuit Court of Trigg County, Kentucky. In 1853 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and was retained in that body until he was expelled for treasonable conduct for accepting election to the Provisional Confederate Congress in 1861. He was then elected to the Confederate Senate from 1862 to1865. He died in 1886 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, and was buried in the East End Cemetery in Cadiz, Kentucky.
Subject	Lawyers Legislators Portraits
People Pictured	Burnett, Henry C.
Date Original	1897
Object Type	Book illustrations
Source	28 x 22 cm. b&w plate. Opposite p. 409 in H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897. In Law Library Rare Book Collection.
Citation Information	Levin, H. The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky. Chicago: Lewis Pub. Co, 1897.
Collection	Law Library Collection
Collection Website	http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/law/
Digital Publisher	Law Library of the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, University of Louisville
Format	image/jpeg
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