George Booth Cary (1811 – March 5, 1850) was a

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Biography

Born at his family estate, Bonny Doon, near

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, Cary received a liberal education. He engaged in planting. Cary was elected as a

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to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843). He then resumed his agricultural pursuits. He died in Bethlehem, Virginia, March 5, 1850, and was interred in the family cemetery on Bonny Doon.

1841 election

Cary was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 56.52% of the vote, defeating an Independent identified only as Collier.

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1811 births 1850 deaths George B. Cary Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia People from Courtland, Virginia 19th-century American politicians {{Virginia-Representative-stub