{{Short description|American judge (1770–1853)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Jacob Burnet | image = JacobBurnet cropped.jpg | jr/sr1 = United States Senator | state1 = Ohio | term_start1 = December 10, 1828 | term_end1 = March 3, 1831 | predecessor1 = William Henry Harrison | successor1 = Thomas Ewing | office2 = Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court | term_start2 = 1821 | term_end2 = December 11, 1828 | appointer2 = Ethan Allen Brown | preceded2 = Jessup Nash Couch | succeeded2 = Joshua Collett | office3 = Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from Hamilton County | term_start3 = 1814 | term_end3 = 1816 | preceded3 = Peter Bell<br>Ephraim Brown<br>Zebulon Foster | succeeded3 = Arthur Henry<br>Daniel Hosbrook<br>Benjamin M. Platt | birth_date = {{birth date|1770|2|22}} | birth_place = Newark, New Jersey | death_date = {{death date and age|1853|5|10|1770|2|22}} | death_place = Cincinnati, Ohio | resting_place = Spring Grove Cemetery<br>Cincinnati, Ohio | party = Adams<br>Anti-Jacksonian | alma_mater = College of New Jersey | parents = William Burnet | spouse = | children = | relations = David G. Burnet | branch = | service_years = | unit = | battles = | awards = | signature = Signature of Jacob Burnet.png }} '''Jacob Burnet''' (sometimes spelled '''Burnett'''<ref>Gilkey 1901 : 131</ref>) (February 22, 1770{{spaced ndash}}May 10, 1853) was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He served as a U.S. senator.
==Early life== Burnet was born in Newark, New Jersey, the son of Dr. William Burnet. He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1791,<ref>{{cite book|last1=Milligan|first1=Fred|title=Ohio's Founding Fathers|date=2003|publisher=iUniverse|page=304|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CGoZoKlKuAC&pg=PA304 |access-date=17 July 2014|isbn=0595750397 |oclc=53472872}}</ref> studied law, moved to the Northwest Territory and settled in Cincinnati in 1796.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJxABLtxX60C&q=1880%20cincinnati&pg=PA377 | title=Centennial History of Cincinnati and Representative Citizens, Volume 1 | publisher=Biographical Publishing Company | year=1904 | access-date=2013-05-22 | author=Charles Theodore Greve | pages=377}}</ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1796.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Este|first1=David Kirkpatrick|title=Discourse on the Life and Public Services of the Late Jacob Burnet: Delivered at Smith and Nixon's Hall|date=1853|publisher=Press of the Cincinnati Gazette Company|page=4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uvMuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA4 |access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref>
==Political career== thumb|left|''Jacob Burnet'' He was a member of the Territorial councils of Ohio from 1799 to 1802 and served in the Ohio State House from 1814 to 1816.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Milligan|first1=Fred|title=Ohio's Founding Fathers|date=2003|publisher=iUniverse|page=112|isbn=9780595293223|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0CGoZoKlKuAC&pg=PA304 |access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref> Burnet was considered the "father of the Ohio constitution" and was an associate justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 until his resignation in 1828 to serve as United States Senator.<ref>Gilkey 1901 : 469</ref> He was elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Henry Harrison. He served in the Senate from December 10, 1828, to March 3, 1831.<ref>{{cite book|last1=J. T. White Company|title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the United States as Illustrated in the Lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the Men and Women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the Thought of the Present Time, Volume 11|date=1901|publisher=J. T. White Company|page=155|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-t4DAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155 |access-date=17 July 2014}}</ref>
Burnet was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.<ref>[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberlistb American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]</ref>
After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law and served as president of Cincinnati College and the Medical College of Ohio.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Jacob_Burnet |title= Jacob Burnet |publisher=Ohio History Central|access-date= July 17, 2014}}</ref> Burnet's ''"Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory"'' is a primary reference on the early Northwest.
He resided in a mansion on the northwest corner of Seventh and Elm streets in Downtown Cincinnati.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/picturesquecinci00daws | title=Picturesque Cincinnati | publisher=John Shillito Company | year=1883 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/picturesquecinci00daws/page/22 22]}}</ref> Burnet died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1853, aged 83. He is interred in Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.<ref>{{cite web|url =http://www.springgrove.org/judge-jacob-burnet---section-22.aspx|title =Judge Jacob Burnet|publisher =The Spring Grove Family|access-date =July 17, 2014|archive-date =July 25, 2014|archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20140725180543/http://www.springgrove.org/judge-jacob-burnet---section-22.aspx|url-status =dead}}</ref>
==Family life== Burnet's half-brother David G. Burnet was the first president of the Republic of Texas.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu46 |title= Burnet, David Gouverneur |publisher=Texas State Historical Association|access-date= July 17, 2014}}</ref>
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==References== *{{cite book |title=The Ohio Hundred Year Book: A Hand-book of the Public Men and Public Institutions of Ohio ... |publisher=State of Ohio |editor-first=Elliot Howard |editor-last=Gilkey |ref=gilkey |year=1901 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUkVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131}} *{{cite book |title=Notes on the Early Settlement of the North-western Territory |first=Jacob |last=Burnet |publisher=Derby, Bradley and Company |location=Cincinnati |year=1847 |url=https://archive.org/details/notesonearlyset00burngoog}}
==External links== {{CongBio|B001117}} *{{Find a Grave|5084}} *[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001117 Congressional Biography]
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