Joseph R. Burton

Joseph R. Burton

Joseph Ralph Burton (born November 16, 1852 in Mitchell , Lawrence County , Indiana , † February 27, 1923 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1906 he represented the state of Kansas in the US Senate .

Career

Joseph Burton attended his home public schools, Franklin College and DePauw University in Greencastle. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1875, he began to work in Princeton (Indiana) in his new profession. In 1878 he moved to Abilene , Kansas. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . Between 1882 and 1886 he sat in the State House of Representatives . At the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893 , he represented his state on the organizing committee. In 1895 he failed because of only one vote in his party's primary election for the US Senate.

Six years later, he first prevailed in the primaries against Lucien Baker, who was victorious at the time, and then in the actual election. On March 3, 1901, he was able to take up his new mandate as a Class 2 category Senator in Washington, DC . He soon came under suspicion of corruption. On January 23, 1904, he was found guilty in federal court in St. Louis . He was fined and sentenced to six months in prison. After an appeal hearing led to the same verdict, he had to resign from the US Senate on June 4, 1906. Until then he was chairman of the Committee on Forest Reservations and Game Protection.

He later returned to Abilene where he worked in the newspaper industry. He died in Los Angeles on February 27, 1923.

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• Joseph R. Burton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)