John L. Burnett

John Lawson Burnett ( born January 20, 1854 in Cedar Bluff, Cherokee County, Alabama, † May 13, 1919 in Gadsden, Etowah County, Alabama) was an American lawyer and politician.

Career

John Lawson Burnett attended the community school, the Wesleyan Institute in Cave Spring (Georgia ), and the local high school in Gaylesville. He studied law and graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville (Tennessee). His license to practice law in Cherokee County, he got in 1876 and then began to practice in Gadsden. Burnett also pursued a political career. He was in 1884 a member of the House of Representatives from Alabama and 1886 in the Senate of Alabama. Later he was elected to the 56th U.S. Congress and reelected to the ten succeeding U.S. Congresses. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1899 until his death in 1919. During this time, he had presided over the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization ( 62 to 65 U.S. Congress ). He was also the 1907-1910 member of the United States Immigration Commission. He was buried at Forest Cemetery in Gadsden.

Cedar Bluff (Alabama) Cherokee County (Alabama) Gadsden (Alabama) Georgia (U.S. state) Alabama Senate Alabama Territory John Crowell (Alabama) Gabriel Moore Reuben Chapman Edmund Strother Dargan John Gayle (Alabama) William J. Alston John Bragg (politician) Philip Phillips (lawyer) Percy Walker Francis William Kellogg Benjamin S. Turner Frederick George Bromberg Jeremiah Haralson James T. Jones Thomas H. Herndon Richard Henry Clarke George W. Taylor (politician) Oscar Lee Gray John McDuffie Frank W. Boykin Jo Bonner John McKee Robert Emmett Bledsoe Baylor Samuel Wright Mardis John McKinley Joshua L. Martin David Hubbard George S. Houston James Edwin Belser Henry Washington Hilliard James Abercrombie (Congressman) Eli Sims Shorter James L. Pugh James T. Rapier Jeremiah Norman Williams Hilary A. Herbert Jesse F. Stallings Ariosto A. Wiley Oliver C. Wiley S. Hubert Dent, Jr. John R. Tyson J. Lister Hill George M. Grant William Louis Dickinson Bobby Bright Martha Roby George Washington Owen Joab Lawler James La Fayette Cottrell Sampson Willis Harris David Clopton Benjamin White Norris William Anderson Handley Charles Pelham (congressman) Taul Bradford William J. Samford William C. Oates George Paul Harrison, Jr. Henry De Lamar Clayton, Jr. Henry B. Steagall George W. Andrews Elizabeth B. Andrews William Flynt Nichols Glen Browder Bob Riley William Winter Payne Samuel Williams Inge William Russell Smith Sydenham Moore Charles Wilson Pierce Charles Hays Charles M. Shelley George Henry Craig Alexander C. Davidson John Van McDuffie Gaston A. Robbins William F. Aldrich Thomas S. Plowman Sydney J. Bowie Fred L. Blackmon Lamar Jeffers Kenneth A. Roberts Robert Aderholt John Murphy (Alabama) Francis Strother Lyon Benjamin Glover Shields John Benton Callis John Henry Caldwell Robert F. Ligon Thomas Williams (Alabama) James E. Cobb Willis Brewer Charles Winston Thompson William B. Bowling LaFayette L. Patterson Miles C. Allgood Joe Starnes John Hall Buchanan, Jr. Albert L. Smith, Jr. Ben Erdreich Williamson Robert Winfield Cobb Thomas Haughey William Crawford Sherrod Goldsmith W. Hewitt Burwell Boykin Lewis Newton Nash Clements John Mason Martin John H. Bankhead Richmond P. Hobson William Bacon Oliver Walter Flowers Robert E. Cramer Parker Griffith Mo Brooks Franklin Welsh Bowdon Alexander White (Alabama) Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry Charles Christopher Sheats William H. Forney Milford W. Howard William B. Bankhead Zadoc L. Weatherford Walter W. Bankhead Carter Manasco James D. Martin Claude Harris, Jr. Earl F. Hilliard Artur Davis Terri Sewell William Willis Garth William M. Lowe Joseph Wheeler Luke Pryor William N. Richardson Christopher Columbus Harris Edward B. Almon Archibald Hill Carmichael Oscar Underwood Truman H. Aldrich George Huddleston Luther Patrick John P. Newsome Laurie C. Battle John Abercrombie (Congressman)

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