Helen E. Burbank

Helen Elizabeth Burbank (born July 27, 1898 in Otego , Otsego County (New York) , † February 22, 1981 in Berlin (Vermont) ) was an American politician who was Secretary of State of Vermont from 1947 to 1949 .

Life

Burbank was born in Otego, New York, to Horace J. Burbank and Edith L. Wicks. She trained at St. Johnsbury Academy and entered government service in 1917.

Burbank was a member of the Vermont sister party of the Republican Party and held various offices in the Vermont state administration . So she was responsible for corporations . She also served on the Public Records Commission and the Commission for Real Eastate Licenses .

In 1920 she began working in the office of the Secretary of State of Vermont . She was appointed Assistant Temporary Secretary by Rawson C. Myrick and was Deputy Secretary of State from 1927 under Howard E. Armstrong . After Myrick's resignation from the office of Secretary of State on September 1, 1947, Burbank was appointed his successor on October 15, 1947. She was the first woman to hold this position; after her there was only one other woman, Deborah Markowitz .

After her father's early death, Burbank lived with her mother, Edith Burbank. Helen E. Burbank died on February 22, 1981 in Berlin (Vermont) . Her grave is in Mount Pleasant Cemetery Saint Johnsbury.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Secretaries of State, located on the Vermont Government home page, accessed March 20, 2015
2. ^ Durward Howes (Ed.): American Women: The Official Who's who Among the Women of the Nation . Volumes 1-3. tape 3 . Richard Blank Publishing Company, 1935, p. 127 ( books.google.de [accessed April 15, 2019]). Helen E Burbank - 1900 United States Census. (No longer available online.) Mocavo.com, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on April 15, 2019 .
    
3. ^ The Book of the States, January 1949. Retrieved March 21, 2015
4. ^ Vermont Yearbook 1951, page 20, accessed March 21, 2015
5. ^ Ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United, accessed March 21, 2015
6. ↑ Acts and Resolves Passed by the General Assembly 1959, p. 578 Retrieved March 21, 2015
   Vermont Legislative Directory Retrieved March 21, 2015
7. ^ State Fact Sheet - Vermont - US Congress (Total Seats: 2 US Senators, 1 US Representative). (No longer available online.) Cawp.rutgers.edu, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on April 15, 2019 . 
8. ^ Ex-Secretary of State Helen Burbank Dies . In: The Burlington Free Press . Burlington, Vermont February 24, 1981, p. 4 ( newspapers.com [accessed April 15, 2019]). Saint Johnsbury Academy - In Memoriam Saint Johnsbury, Vermont - Class 1900 to 1919 . From nekg-vt.com, accessed April 15, 2019
   
9. ↑ Helen E. Burbank in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved April 15, 2019.