Robert Burton (statesman)
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farmer
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, Revolutionary War officer, and plantation
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owner in what is now Vance County, North Carolina
Vance County, North Carolina
-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 42,954 people, 16,199 households, and 11,647 families residing in the county. The population density was 169 people per square mile . There were 18,196 housing units at an average density of 72 per square mile...
(then Granville County, North Carolina
Granville County, North Carolina
-Demographics:As of the census of 2010, there were 59,916 people in 20,628 households residing in the county. The population density was 111.6 people per square mile . There were 22,827 housing units at an average density of 42.5 per square mile...
). He was a delegate from North Carolina
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to the Continental Congress
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in 1787. Between 1783 and 1815, the North Carolina General Assembly
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elected him to 13 one-year terms on the Council of State
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, which at the time was an official advisory panel that the legislature used to check the governor's power.
Burton was the uncle of Governor Hutchins G. Burton.