John Banister
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Template:Otherpeople John Banister (December 26, 1734 – September 30, 1788) was an American lawyer from Petersburg, Virginia. He was educated at Middle Temple in London, England. He served in the House of Burgesses (1765–1775), Continental Congress in 1778, and Virginia House of Delegates (1776–1777 and 1781–1783). During the Revolutionary War, he was a Major and Lt. Colonel in the Virginia militia. Banister is buried in the family plot at Hatcher's Run, the family estate in Dinwiddie County, Virginia.
External links
- Banister's Congressional biography (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000109)