American politician (1811-1850)
George Booth Cary (1811 – March 5, 1850) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia.
Biography.
Born at his family estate, Bonny Doon, near Courtland, Virginia, Cary received a liberal education. He engaged in planting.
Cary was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843). He then resumed his agricultural pursuits. He died in Bethlehem, Virginia, March 5, 1850, and was interred in the family cemetery on Bonny Doon.
1841 election.
Cary was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives with 56.52% of the vote, defeating an Independent identified only as Collier.