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Barney Burton

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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.

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