George Booth Cary was a U.S. Representative

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 from Virginia

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Born at "Bonny Doon," near Courtland, Virginia

Courtland, Virginia

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, Cary received a liberal education.
He engaged in planting.

Cary was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843).
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He died in Bethlehem, Virginia, March 5, 1850.
He was interred in the family cemetery on his estate, "Bonny Doon," near Courtland, Virginia

Courtland, Virginia

Courtland is an incorporated town in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,270 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Southampton County....

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