Background
Burnell, Barker was born on January 30, 1798 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.
Burnell, Barker was born on January 30, 1798 in Nantucket, Massachusetts, United States.
Massachusetts General Court
Massachusetts Constitutional convention of 1820
Burnell served as delegate to the in 1840. Burnell was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses and served from March 4, 1841, until his death in Washington, District of Columbia, June 15, 1843. He was interred in Congressional Cemetery.
Burnell was re-interred in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1844.
Burnell served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1821-1822, and as a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1823, from 1825 to 1833, and in 1838. Burnell was a member of the Massachusetts constitutional convention of 1820.