George Burd (1788January 13, 1844) was an

Anti-Jacksonian The National Republican Party, also known as the Anti-Jacksonian Party or simply Republicans, was a political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning faction of the Democratic-Republican Party that supported John Qu ...

member of the

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from

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

. George Burd was born in Pennsylvania in 1788.Crime Buff's Guide to Outlaw Pennsylvania
/ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1810 at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and practiced. Burd was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses. He moved to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, in 1843, and died in

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, in 1844. Interment in Bedford Cemetery.

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The Political Graveyard
{{DEFAULTSORT:Burd, George 1788 births 1844 deaths People from Carlisle, Pennsylvania National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania