John Lawson Burnett | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromAlabama's7th district | |
| In office March 4, 1899 – May 13, 1919 | |
| Preceded by | Milford W. Howard |
| Succeeded by | Lilius B. Rainey |
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| Born | (1854-01-20)January 20, 1854 |
| Died | May 13, 1919(1919-05-13) (aged 65) |
John Lawson Burnett (January 20, 1854 – May 13, 1919) was aU.S. representative fromAlabama.
Born inCedar Bluff, Alabama, Burnett attended the common schools of the county, Wesleyan Institute,Cave Spring, Georgia, and the local high school atGaylesville, Alabama.
He studied law and graduated fromVanderbilt University,Nashville, Tennessee.
In 1876, he wasadmitted to the bar inCherokee County, Alabama and commenced practice in Gadsden thereafter. He served in theState House of Representatives in 1884 and as member of the State senate in 1886.
Burnett was elected as aDemocrat to theFifty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1899, until his death.[1]
He served as chairman of the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization (Sixty-second throughSixty-fifth Congresses). On April 5, 1917, John Lawson Burnett was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany (World War I).
He served as member of the United States Immigration Commission 1907-1910. In 1907, Congressman John L. Burnett called Syrians "the most undesirable of the undesirable peoples of Asia Minor".[2]
John L. Burnett died inGadsden, Alabama on May 13, 1919, and was interred in Forest Cemetery.
This article incorporatespublic domain material fromBiographical Directory of the United States Congress.Federal government of the United States.
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