![]() J. Herbert Burke Captain, United States Army Member of Congress |
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Courtesy
of the U.S. House of Representatives:
BURKE, J. Herbert, a Representative from Florida;
born in Chicago, Ill., January 14, 1913; attended the public schools of
Chicago, Ill.; attended Central Y.M.C.A. College in Chicago, Ill., and
Northwestern University; graduated from Kent College of Law in 1940; served
in the United States Army in the European Theater in 1942-1945, was awarded
the Purple Heart, Bronze Star, the European Theater Medal, and the American
Theater Ribbon, and was discharged with the rank of captain; admitted to
the bar in 1940 and practiced in Chicago, 1940-1949, and Hollywood, Fla.,
1949-1968; elected Republican commissioner in Broward County, Fla., in
1952 and served in that capacity until 1967; Republican State committeeman,
1954-1958; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress
in a special election, January 11, 1955; delegate to Republican National
Conventions from 1968 to 1976; member, Republican Platform Committee, 1968;
appointed by President Eisenhower to Southeastern Advisory Board of Small
Business in 1956; elected as a Republican to the Ninetieth and to the five
succeeding Congresses; (January 3, 1967-January 3, 1979); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress; was a resident
of Falls Church, Va., and Fern Park, Fla., until his death in Altamonte
Springs, Fla., on June 16, 1993. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Updated: 8 November 2000 Updated: 22 February 2003 Updated: 23 April 2006 |
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