Charles Augustus Barnitz (September 11, 1780 – January 8, 1850) was an American politician who served as anAnti-Masonic member of theU.S. House of Representatives forPennsylvania's 11th congressional district from 1833 to 1835.

Barnitz was born inYork, Pennsylvania to Jacob (of German descent) and Mary McClean Barnitz.^[1] He received his education at the York Academy. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in York.

He was a member of thePennsylvania State Senate for the11th district from 1815 to 1819.^[2]

From 1820 until his death he served as agent of the heirs ofWilliam Penn for their interests inSpringettsbury Manor, the center of which is now the city of York.^[3]

Barnitz was elected as anAnti-Masonic candidate to theTwenty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for reelection in1834 to theTwenty-fourth Congress. He resumed the practice of law at York and was also engaged in banking and served as president of the York Bank. He was member of the State constitutional convention in 1838 and a delegate to the Whig National Conventions atHarrisburg, Pennsylvania, in1840 and atBaltimore, Maryland, in1844. He died in York in 1850. Interment in the First Presbyterian Churchyard.

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• The Political Graveyard
• Lawyers and Leaders: The Role of Lawyers in the Development of York County, Pennsylvania, 2005,ISBN 978-0-9766629-0-7, York County Bar Association by Georg R. Sheets

• 1780 births
• 1850 deaths
• American people of German descent
• Anti-Masonic Party United States representatives from Pennsylvania
• Presbyterians from Pennsylvania
• Pennsylvania lawyers
• Pennsylvania state senators
• Pennsylvania Whigs
• Politicians from York, Pennsylvania
• 19th-century American lawyers
• 19th-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly
• 19th-century United States representatives

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