Biography of George Burnett, 1899, State of Oregon
Surnames: Burnett

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Oregon Native Son, Vol. 1, June 1899, page 117

JUDGE GEORGE BURNETT.

Judge Burnett was born in Yamhill county, Oregon. May 9, 1853. and was
educated at McMinnville college until 1871, when he entered Christian college
at Monmouth, and graduated in the classical course, with degree of A. B., in
June, 1873, after which he studied law with Mallory & Shaw, in Salem, being
admitted to the Oregon bar in December,  1875, and subsequently to the United
States circuit and district courts. In June, 1876, he was elected district
attorney of the third judiical district and served for two years. In 1890 he
was elected grand master of Odd Fellows, and in 1891 grand representative to
the soverign grand lodge, at which time he secured the session of that body
for Portland in 1892, during which year he was elected circuit judge of    the
third judicial district and was re-elected in 1898.

Judge Burnett is a typical representative of that noble species of manhood
known as the self- made man. Throughout his entire life his success and
popularity have been, due to an indomitable will, and a broad mind filled
withknowledge by unremitting toil, together with a heart full of kind
impulses, and good will to all mankind. In youth and early manhood physical
necessities united with thirst of knowledge, taxing his strength and time to
acquire both, until he considered himself a common laborer by occupation, but
a lawyer by profession. Industry and constant application, however, have
earned their own reward, until he is recognized as one of the ablest
representatives of his profession in the state.