David Walker Barton
{{short description|American politician}}
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David Walker Benjamin Barton (1801 – July 7, 1863){{cite book|author=Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes|title=Yale's Confederates: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3CGsmBhZr3cC&pg=PA13|year=2008|publisher=Univ. of Tennessee Press|isbn=978-1-57233-635-3|page=13}} was an American politician.
Life
Barton graduated from Yale College in 1821. He was a lawyer by profession, and had been a member of the Virginia Legislature. He was an earnest opponent of the southern secession, and his death is said to have been occasioned by the domestic distress which the American Civil War produced. He died in Winchester, Virginia, July 1863, aged about 61 years.
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External links
- {{find a Grave|18773081}}
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Category:Members of the Virginia General Assembly
Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:Southern Unionists in the American Civil War
Category:19th-century members of the Virginia General Assembly