Burnet, David G
Texan politician, was born April 4, 1789, in Newark, N. J.
In 1836 he gave over the government of Texas into the hands of Houston, the constitutionally elected president. He was afterward elected vice-president, and, after the admission of Texas into the union, lived in retirement near the battlefield of San Jacinto. He remained in the south during the civil war, and at its close was elected, in 1866, to the United States senate from Texas, but congress refused to admit him. After that he resided in retirement on his plantation near Houston. He died Dec. 5, 1870, in Galveston, Texas.