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'''Burwell Bassett''' ([[March 18]], [[1764]] – [[February 26]], [[1841]]) was an [[18th century|eighteenth]] and [[19th century|nineteenth century]] politician from [[Virginia]]. |
'''Burwell Bassett''' ([[March 18]], [[1764]] – [[February 26]], [[1841]]) was an [[18th century|eighteenth]] and [[19th century|nineteenth century]] politician from [[Virginia]]. |
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Born in [[Williamsburg, Virginia]] to Burwell Bassett and Anna Maria Dandridge, the sister of [[Martha Washington]], Bassett attended the [[College of William and Mary]]. He was a member of the [[Virginia House of Delegates]] from 1787 to 1789 and the [[Virginia State Senate|Virginia Senate]] from 1794 to 1805. He was unsuccessful in contesting the election of [[John Clopton]] to the [[United States House of Representatives]] in 1794, but was later elected in a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] in 1804, serving from 1805 to 1813. There, Bassett served as chairman of the [[United States House Committee on the Judiciary|Committee on Claims]] and of the [[United States House Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business|Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business]] from 1811 to 1813. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1812, but later was so in 1814, serving again from 1815 to 1819. Bassett then returned to the House of Delegates, serving again from 1819 to 1821 and returned to the United States House a third time, serving again from 1821 to 1829 as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]ic-Republican, [[Crawford Republican Party|Crawford Republican]] and [[Jacksonian democracy|Jacksonian]]. He was unsuccessful for reelection and eventually died on [[February 26]], [[1841]] in [[New Kent County, Virginia]]. He was interned at the Eltham Plantation in New Kent County. |
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== FUK VIRGINIANS!! == |
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Bassett married twice, first to Elizabeth McCarty in 1788 and after her death to Philadelphia Ann Claiborne in 1800. |
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==External links== |
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{{CongBio|B000224}} |
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*[http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10511851 Burwell Bassett] at [[Find A Grave]] |
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*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/basset-bastin.html Burwell Bassett] at [[The Political Graveyard]] |
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*[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mysouthernfamily/myff/d0091/g0000007.html#I65623 Burwell Bassett's family tree] |
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| state=Virginia |
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| before=[[Thomas Griffin]] |
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| after= [[John Roane]] |
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| years=[[March 4]], [[1805]] – [[March 3]], [[1813]] (obsolete district) |
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| before=[[Thomas M. Bayly]] |
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| after= [[Severn E. Parker]] |
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| years=[[March 4]], [[1815]] – [[March 3]], [[1819]] (obsolete district) |
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| state=Virginia |
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| district=13 |
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| before=[[Severn E. Parker]] |
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| after= [[William Lee Ball|William L. Ball]] |
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| years=[[March 4]], [[1821]] – [[March 3]], [[1823]] (obsolete district) |
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| state=Virginia |
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| district=8 |
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| before=[[Charles F. Mercer]] |
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| after= [[Richard Coke, Jr.]] |
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| years=[[March 4]], [[1823]] – [[March 3]], [[1829]] |
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[[Category:1764 births]] |
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[[Category:1840 deaths]] |
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[[Category:Members of the Virginia House of Delegates]] |
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[[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia]] |
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[[Category:Virginia State Senators]] |
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[[Category:People from Williamsburg, Virginia]] |
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[[Category:College of William and Mary alumni]] |
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Revision as of 00:13, 9 May 2008
Burwell Bassett (March 18, 1764 – February 26, 1841) was an eighteenth and nineteenth century politician from Virginia.