YANCEY, Bartlett, (cousin of John Kerr), a Representative from North Carolina; born near Yanceyville, Caswell County, N.C., February 19, 1785; attended a private school and Hyco Academy in Caswell County; student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1804-1806; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and practiced; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1817); chairman, Committee on Claims (Thirteenth and Fourteenth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1816; member of the State senate and served as its presiding officer 1817-1827; died near Yanceyville, N.C., August 30, 1828; interment in the family cemetery upon the homestead.
(Source: Biographical Directory of the United States 1774-present.)

YANCEY, BARTLETT, lawyer, state legislator, congressman, was born about 1780 in Caswell County, N. C. He was a member of congress from North Carolina in 1813, where he served four years. He served for many years in the state legislature, and frequently as speaker of the house. He died Aug. 30, 1828, in Caswell County, N. C.
[Herringshaw's encyclopedia of American biography of the nineteenth century; Edited by Thomas William Herringshaw; Publ. 1901; Donated and Transcribed by Andrea Stawski Pack]