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Barney Burton
South Carolina House of Representatives
In office 1868–?
Personal details
Political party	Republican

Barney Burton was an American legislator in South Carolina. He served in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 and 1870. He represented Chester County, South Carolina.

Burton was involved with the Chester A.M.E. Baptist church in its early days.

Burton was a delegate to the South Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868. He represented Chester County in the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1868 along with Sancho Sanders and Barney Humphries.

See also

• African-American officeholders during and following the Reconstruction era

References

1. "Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of South-Carolina". The State. June 11, 1870 – via Google Books.
2. "South Carolina Legislature Online - Search". www.scstatehouse.gov.
3. "The Political Graveyard: African ancestry Politicians in South Carolina". politicalgraveyard.com.
4. Representatives, USA House of (June 11, 1868). "House Documents". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.

• People from Chester County, South Carolina
• African-American state legislators in South Carolina
• Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives
• People of the African Methodist Episcopal church
• African-American politicians during the Reconstruction Era
• 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly