# George Burd

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{{short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = George Burd
| birth_date = 1788
| birth_place = [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania), U.S.
| death_date = {{death date and age|1844|1|13|1788}}
| death_place = [Bedford, Pennsylvania](/source/Bedford%2C_Pennsylvania), U.S.
| state = [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania)
| constituency = [13th district](/source/Pennsylvania's_13th_congressional_district) (1831–33)<br>[18th district](/source/Pennsylvania's_18th_congressional_district) (1833–35)
| term_start = March 4, 1831
| term_end = March 3, 1835
| preceded = [Chauncey Forward](/source/Chauncey_Forward)
| succeeded = [Job Mann](/source/Job_Mann)
| party = [Anti-Jacksonian](/source/National_Republican_Party)
}}

'''George Burd''' (1788{{spnd}}January 13, 1844) was an [Anti-Jacksonian](/source/Anti-Jacksonian) member of the [U.S. House of Representatives](/source/U.S._House_of_Representatives) from [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania).

George Burd was born in Pennsylvania in 1788.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=K_RABAAAQBAJ&dq=george+burd+pennsylvania+1788&pg=PA195 Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania]</ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1810 at [Carlisle, Pennsylvania](/source/Carlisle%2C_Pennsylvania), and practiced.

Burd was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the [Twenty-second](/source/22nd_United_States_Congress) and [Twenty-third](/source/23rd_United_States_Congress) Congresses.  He moved to [Mercer County, Pennsylvania](/source/Mercer_County%2C_Pennsylvania), in 1843, and died in [Bedford, Pennsylvania](/source/Bedford%2C_Pennsylvania), in 1844. Interment in Bedford Cemetery.

==Sources==
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*[http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/burcham-burdette.html The Political Graveyard]

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{{US House succession box
| state=Pennsylvania
| district=13
| before=[Chauncey Forward](/source/Chauncey_Forward)
| after=[Jesse Miller](/source/Jesse_Miller_(politician))
| years=1831–1833
}}
{{US House succession box
| state=Pennsylvania
| district=18
| before=[John Banks](/source/John_Banks_(United_States))
| after=[Job Mann](/source/Job_Mann)
| years=1833–1835
}}
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Category:1788 births
Category:1844 deaths
Category:Politicians from Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Category:National Republican Party United States representatives from Pennsylvania
Category:19th-century Pennsylvania politicians
Category:19th-century United States representatives
Category:Pennsylvania lawyers

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