Armistead Burt

Armistead Burt (* November 13, 1802 in Edgefield, South Carolina, † October 30, 1883 in Abbeville, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1843 and 1853 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth came Burt with his parents to Pendleton. There he attended the public schools. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1823 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Pendleton. In 1828 he moved his residence and his law firm to Abbeville. There he worked in the consequence also in agriculture.

Burt was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1834 and 1835 and again from 1838 to 1841 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1842 he was in the fifth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac E. Holmes on March 4, 1843. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1853 five contiguous legislatures. In this time of the Mexican -American War and the associated territorial expansion of the United States fell. Burt's last years in Congress were dominated by discussions on the issue of slavery. From 1849 to 1853 he was Chairman of the Military Committee. In 1848, he served as agent of Robert Charles Winthrop, the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

1852 renounced Burt on another candidacy for Congress. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. In 1868 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, on the Horatio Seymour was nominated as a presidential candidate. Otherwise, it is no longer politically have appeared. Armistead Burt died on 30 October 1883 in Abbeville.