Harry T. Burn
Harry Thomas Burn, Sr. (November 12, 1895 – February 19, 1977) was a member of the Tennessee General Assembly for McMinn County, Tennessee. Burn became the youngest member of the state legislature when he was elected at the age of twenty-two. He is best remembered for action taken to ratify the Nineteenth Amendment during his first term in the legislature.
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