John H. Burke

John Harley Burke (born June 2, 1894 in Excelsior , Richland County , Wisconsin , †  May 14, 1951 in Long Beach , California ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1897 John Burke moved with his parents to Milaca , Minnesota, and three years later to San Pedro , California. The family had lived in Long Beach since 1909. He attended the public schools in his respective homeland and then studied at Santa Clara University . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and his admission to the bar in 1917, he began to work in this profession in Long Beach. This activity was interrupted by his military service during the First World War. He was a soldier in a US Army training camp in Kentucky . After the war, Burke also worked in the oil industry. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party .

In the 1932 congressional elections , Burke was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the then newly established 18th  electoral district of California , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1933. Since he refused to run again in 1934, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1935 . It was there that the first New Deal laws of the federal government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Burke worked in the real estate industry. He died on May 14, 1951 in Long Beach.

Web links

• John H. Burke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John H. Burke in the database of Find a Grave (English)