Member Biography

Charlton Burnett 

Charlton Burnett 
Sessions Office Position District Party
1867       10 Democrat
1868       10 Democrat
1869       10 Democrat
1876       22 Democrat
1877       22 Democrat
1878       22 Democrat

COUNTIES: Carbon, Monroe, Wayne, Pike  


Biography

08/31/1826 - 10/04/1907

Brigadier General Charlton Burnett (D10) Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne Counties 1867-1869 (D22) Carbon, Monroe and Pike Counties 1876-1878 

Early Life:

Brigadier General Charlton Burnett, born August 31, 1826, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; local school education; studied law; admitted, Monroe County Bar; by profession a lawyer; married, Jane Caroline Levering, 1856, children, Rogers L. Burnett, Harry Charlton Burnett, William McCandless Burnett; brigadier general, second, brigade, Monroe County, Civil War, 1862; County Superintendent of Monroe County; District Attorney, Monroe County; treasurer Monroe County; died, October 4, 1907 (aged 81) Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania; interment, Stroudsburg Cemetery, Stroudsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. 

Pennsylvania Politics: 

County Superintendent of Monroe County; District Attorney, Monroe County; treasurer, Monroe County.  

Elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 10th district, Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne Counties, 1867-1869; committee assignments, Estates and Escheats, Retrenchment and Reform, Vice and Immorality. 

Elected, Pennsylvania State Senate, 22nd district, Carbon, Monroe and Pike Counties, 1876-1878; committee assignments, Centennial Affairs, Constitutional Reform, Corporations, Retrenchment and Reform.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members B". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1868) Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 276, 280-282.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1878) Smull, J.A., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 656, 662-665, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 620.

Charlton Burnett (1826-1907) - Find a Grave Memorial