- Thomas Burnside
Thomas Burnside (
July 28 ,1782 -March 25 ,1851 ) was a member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromPennsylvania and associate justice of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania .Thomas Burnside was born near
Newtownstewart ,County Tyrone ,Ireland . He immigrated to theUnited States with his father’s family, who settled inNorristown, Pennsylvania , in 1793. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1804 and commenced practice inBellefonte, Pennsylvania . He was appointed deputyattorney general on January 12, 1809, and served in thePennsylvania State Senate in 1811 and 1812.Burnside was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
David Bard and served unil his resignation in April 1816. He was appointed president judge of the Luzerne district courts in 1815, and resigned in 1819. He was again a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and its presiding officer in 1823. He was president judge of the fourth judicial district from 1826 to 1841 and later presided in the same capacity over the seventh judicial district. He was appointed an associate justice of theSupreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1845, which office he held until his death inGermantown, Pennsylvania . Interment in Union Cemetery in Bellefonte.ources
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