Early Life
Burnett was born and raised in Goodlettsville, Tennessee. As a student at Goodlettsville High School he served as class president and was chosen “most likely to succeed." He attended Cumberland College and received a law degree from the University of Tennessee. While in law school he served as a lay minister for a Church of Christ congregation in Jamestown, Tennessee, where following graduation he established a law practice and began his political career.
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“... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance.”
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