Harold Hitz Burton

Harold Hitz Burton

Harold Hitz Burton (born June 22, 1888 in Boston , Massachusetts , † October 28, 1964 in Washington, DC ) was an American judge and politician of the Republican Party . From 1941 to 1945 he sat for the US state Ohio in the Senate .

biography

Burton was born in Jamaica Plan, a neighborhood in Boston, to Alfred E. Burton and Anna Gertrude Hitz. His father was the dean of MIT . He often accompanied Robert Edwin Peary on his excursions. His mother was the daughter of a Swiss diplomat. He was also related to J. Edgar Hoover through his mother .

Burton attended Bowdoin College where he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa . He shared a flat with the future Maine Senator , Owen Brewster . In 1912 he joined the Jura -Studies at Harvard University from. He then went to Ohio and opened a law firm. During the First World War he served in the US Army , most recently in the rank of infantry officer.

In 1929 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives. There he sat for a year. In 1935 he was elected Mayor of Cleveland . He remained so until his election to the Senate in 1941.

On September 18, 1945, US President Harry S. Truman nominated him to succeed Owen Roberts . He was to take his place on the Supreme Court of the United States . The Senate approved the nomination on September 19. He was sworn in by Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone on September 22nd and took office the same day. During his tenure, he worked on the Brown v. Board of Education involved.

In 1912 Burton married Selma Florence Smith. They had 4 children. He died in office in Washington, DC in 1964 and was buried in Highland Park Cemetery in Cuyahoga County , Ohio.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Judicial Center Harold Hitz Burton , accessed January 28, 2011

Web links

• Harold Hitz Burton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Harold Hitz Burton in the database of Find a Grave (English)