Edmund Burke (politician)

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (born January 23, 1809 in Westminster , Windham County , Vermont , †  January 25, 1882 in Newport , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1845 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edmund Burke attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1826, he began to work in Colebrook (New Hampshire) in his new profession. In 1833 he moved to Claremont where he got into the newspaper business. A year later, in 1834, he moved to Newport, where he combined two daily newspapers and then published the new paper for a few years.

Burke was also a member of the New Hampshire State Militia. In 1837 and 1838 he was an adjutant and inspector of the high command of this unit. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1838, held nationwide, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the second mandate from New Hampshire . There he took over from James Farrington on March 4, 1839 . After two elections in 1845 he was able to three consecutive parliamentary terms in until March 3, Congress completed. These have been overshadowed by the tension between President John Tyler and the Whig Party since 1841 . The question of a possible annexation of the then independent Republic of Texas to the United States was also a hotly contested issue.

In 1844 Burke renounced another candidacy. That same year he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where James K. Polk was nominated as the party's presidential candidate. In 1846 Burke was appointed patent commissioner of the federal government by Polk, who has now been elected president. He held this office until September 3, 1850. After that, Burke worked as a lawyer again. In 1852 he was again a delegate at the Federal Democratic Party Congress, where Franklin Pierce was nominated for the presidency. In 1867 he headed the regional Democratic Party convention in New Hampshire. Edmund Burke's last political mandate was in 1871 as a member of the New Hampshire Agriculture Committee. He died on January 25, 1882 in Newport and was buried there.

Web links

• Edmund Burke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edmund Burke in the database of Find a Grave (English)