H.C. Burnett.
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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