Hutchins Gordon Burton (1774-21 April 1836) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NC 2) from 6 December 1819 to 23 March 1824 (succeeding Joseph Hunter Bryan and preceding George Outlaw) and the National Republican Governor of North Carolina from 7 December 1824 to 8 December 1827 (succeeding Gabriel Holmes and preceding James Iredell Jr.).
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Hutchins Gordon Burton was born in Mecklenburg County, Virginia in 1774, and he was raised by his uncle Robert Burton in Vance County, North Carolina after his father died. He practiced law and served as the Federalist Attorney General of North Carolina from 1810 to 1816, as a Democratic-Republican member of the House of Commons from Halifax from 1817 to 1818, in the US House of Representatives from 1819 to 1824, and as the National Republican Governor from 1824 to 1827. He died in 1836.