Thomas A. Burke

Thomas Burke around 1950

Thomas Aloysius Burke (born October 30, 1898 in Cleveland , Ohio , †  December 5, 1971 ibid) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Ohio in the US Senate .

Thomas Burke attended Catholic parochial schools and served during the First World War as a soldier in the US Army . He made in 1920 graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester ( Massachusetts ) and was three years later his law degree from the Law School of the Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and he was admitted to the Bar Association and practicing as a lawyer in his hometown started. From 1930 to 1936 he served as the Assistant District Attorney for Cuyahoga County ; In 1937 he was special advisor to the Ohio Attorney General .

After serving as the chief legal officer ( Director of Law ) in Cleveland from 1942 to 1945 , Burke was elected mayor of the city. He held this post until 1953; this year he was still in front of the nationwide mayors' association ( National Conference of Mayors ). When United States Senator Robert A. Taft , a Republican , died on July 31, 1953, Burke was appointed as his successor by the Democratic Governor of Ohio, Frank J. Lausche . He took up his mandate in Congress from November 10, 1953 and also ran for by-elections for the remainder of the legislature, which he narrowly lost to Republican George H. Bender . Burke had to leave the Senate on December 2, 1954.

As a result he worked again as a lawyer. Thomas Burke died in Cleveland in 1971; the local Burke Lakefront Airport is named after him.

Web links

• Thomas A. Burke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas A. Burke in the database of Find a Grave (English)