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Providence Burrill, J Ames, Statesman, Born I

BURRILL, James, statesman, born in Providence, Rhode Island, 25 April, 1772; died in Washington, District of Columbia, 25 December, 1820. He was graduated at Rhode Island College (now Brown university) in 1788, and, after studying law with Theodore Foster and David Howell (both afterward U.S. senators), he was admitted to the bar in September, 1791. He was attorney general of Rhode Island from 1797 till 1813, when the decline of his health caused his retirement from the bar. He was a member of the legislature in 1813, speaker in 1814, and chief justice of the state Supreme Court in 1816. He was chosen United States senator in 1817, but died before the expiration of his term. He bore a distinguished part in the senate. especially in the debate on the Missouri compromise, to which he was inflexibly opposed.

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